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 ...

Twenty years ago, the George W. Bush administration expanded its “war on terror,” launched in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to Iraq. In his March 19, 2003, address announcing 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 ...