Barbed wire fence silhouetted against a dark orange Texas dusk

PathLight Legal

Documenting what the systemwould rather not publish.

We build long-form, source-backed campaigns on the parts of the justice system that operate out of view — and we collect firsthand accounts from the people living inside them.

Current campaign

Texas Probation Exposed

Community supervision in Texas was sold as the humane alternative to prison. In practice it operates as a pipeline back into one — driven by rule violations rather than crime, sustained by fees collected from the poor, and delivering no measurable return in public safety.

Read the investigation