Solitary confinement is the confinement of prisoners in a cell, usually for 22 to 23, in some instances 24, hours a day, where they’re prevented from having access to any common activities which ...

Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestseller The New Jim Crow, and a civil-rights advocate, lawyer, legal scholar and professor. She spoke with FRONTLINE about how the war on drugs spawned a ...

Watch FRONTLINE's documentary examining how far-right leaders in Germany have risen to the brink of power.

Helen (left) and Sara (right), two of the “Children of Syria” in FRONTLINE’s documentary chronicling a family’s escape from Syria to a new life as refugees in Germany. The number of people around the ...

Sofia Nelson is a Detroit-based public defender. They attended Yale Law School with JD Vance. The following interview was conducted by Gabrielle Schonder for FRONTLINE on August 7, 2024. It has been ...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent questions an unaccompanied minor after a group of asylum seekers crossed the Rio Grande into Texas on March 25, 2021. April 8, 2021, update: U.S. authorities took almost ...