NPR's Pentagon Correspondent, Tom Bowman, receives a shocking tip from a trusted source: A deadly explosion during the Iraq War... more

In our final episode of the season, we start researching the names on the secret list of 2,746 Cuban excludables.... more

Since we began reporting this story, we've been after a list. A secret list. On it are the names of... more

In Episode 6, we sneak into the graveyard of the Atlanta federal penitentiary with a radical peace activist to learn... more

On May 18, 1980, a man named Genaro Soroa-Gonzalez arrived in Key West from the port of Mariel. With no... more

When President Carter promised to welcome the men and women arriving on the Mariel boatlift with "an open heart and... more

During our reporting, we heard one story over and over again: that Fidel Castro had emptied his prisons to fill... more

The story of the men on the roof didn't start with that prison takeover in 1991. It didn't start when... more

It all started with a photograph. A photograph from 1991 of a prison takeover in rural Alabama. A photograph of... more

In 1991, a group of men took over a federal prison in rural Alabama. But these men weren't prisoners, they... more