The Marshall ProjectPregnancy 'Tutwiler' Reveals the Heartbreak of Pregnancy in Prisonthemarshallproject.org - Alysia Santo A new documentary from The Marshall Project and Frontline (PBS) offers a rare look at the lives of expectant mothers inside a notorious women’s …
The Marshall ProjectPregnancy 'Tutwiler' Reveals the Heartbreak of Pregnancy in Prisonthemarshallproject.org - Alysia Santo A new documentary from The Marshall Project and Frontline (PBS) offers a rare look at the lives of expectant mothers inside a notorious women’s …
The Marshall ProjectCriminal Law For My Incarcerated Clients, There Is No Winningthemarshallproject.org - Peter Borenstein Tears were streaming down the man’s face, and the interview room in which we’d been sitting across from each other didn’t have any tissues. “They …
The Marshall ProjectFunerals Finding Peace—and Briefly, Freedom—at My Grandfather’s Funeralthemarshallproject.org - Robert K. Wright “Saying goodbye with the people who loved him—and me—I remember that I am not the tomb that imprisons me.” At Sing Sing, once classes are over in the …
The Marshall ProjectIcon version of the Flipboard logoClemency Where the 2020 Democratic Candidates Stand on Criminal Justice | The Marshall Projectthemarshallproject.org O’Rourke points to his own experiences getting arrested and then bailed out of jail in the 1990s. Booker tweeted: “Cash bail doesn't work, it never …
The Marshall ProjectDomestic Violence I Killed My Wife. Now I Want to Help Prevent Domestic Violence.themarshallproject.org - Daniel Adams “If I could save one man from doing what I did, then I will have found a calling for my final years.” Twenty-eight years is a good long time to review …
The Marshall ProjectIcon version of the Flipboard logoCrime New FBI Data: Violent Crime Still Fallingthemarshallproject.org - Jamiles Lartey 2018 drop extends decades-long trend, but rapes rise for sixth straight year FBI data released Monday suggests that the violent crime rate in the U.S. …
The Marshall ProjectPodcasting I Host a Popular Podcast. I’m Also in Prison.themarshallproject.org - Rahsaan Thomas The sun shines brightly through the gated windows so I grab a pair of Sony headphones and the Tascam (a portable audio recorder) and leave the office …
The Marshall ProjectNew York University He Didn’t Abuse His Daughter. The State Took Her Anyway.themarshallproject.org - Eli Hager An unwed father hopes his case will change the way courts decide what it means to be a parent. For the first five years of his daughter Amanda’s life, …
The Marshall ProjectImmigration How the U.S. Created the World's Largest Immigrant Detention System | The Marshall Projectthemarshallproject.org A modest system holding fewer than 3,000 migrants a day at the end of the 1970s, detention has now morphed into a sprawling machinery ensnaring …
The Marshall ProjectIcon version of the Flipboard logoCrime Do Deportations Lower Crime? Not According to the Datathemarshallproject.org - Anna Flagg A new study casts doubt on the effectiveness of a program that encourges local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. In one of …
The Marshall ProjectArt Where Art and Rural Incarceration Meetthemarshallproject.org - Celina Fang Artist Jesse Krimes’s latest work uses a corn maze and quilts to address increasing incarceration rates in small-town America. In 1851, the rolling …
The Marshall ProjectClothing All I Really Need to Know I Learned on the Streets of the Garment Districtthemarshallproject.org “The runaways, the mobsters, the pimps—they saw me as someone credible, someone who didn’t judge them.” Growing up in Brooklyn in the 70s, starting …
The Marshall ProjectPolitics Tennessee's Voter Restoration Gauntletthemarshallproject.org - Nicole Lewis The state’s byzantine felony disenfranchisement laws keep hundreds of thousands of formerly incarcerated residents from registering to vote. For the …
The Marshall Project The Navajo Nation Opposed His Execution. The U.S. Plans to Do It Anyway.themarshallproject.org - Christie Thompson How Lezmond Mitchell became the only Native American on federal death row. In 2003, Lezmond Mitchell was found guilty of carjacking and murder for …
The Marshall ProjectIcon version of the Flipboard logoJournalism Border Courts Swamped With New Asylum Casesthemarshallproject.org - Andrew R. Calderón Thousands of cases have been filed since President Trump started forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico. Early this year, the Trump administration …
The Marshall ProjectIntellectual Disabilities When People with Intellectual Disabilities Are Punished, Parents Pay the Pricethemarshallproject.org - Chiara Eisner A sex offense conviction can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But for two years, from six in the evening to six in the morning the next day, she …
The Marshall Project A Thirst for Justicethemarshallproject.org - Samuel Campbell “They booked me into a cell where there was a paper sign over the toilet saying DON’T DRINK THE WATER.” In the fall of 2015, I was arrested in Flint, …
The Marshall Project Here's Why Abolishing Private Prisons Isn't a Silver Bulletthemarshallproject.org - Mia Armstrong The vast majority of prisoners are held in publicly run prisons. But the private sector affects their incarceration in different ways. Democratic …
The Marshall ProjectIcon version of the Flipboard logo We Are Witnesses: Chicago | The Marshall Projectthemarshallproject.org A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system
The Marshall Project Can Kamala Harris Adapt The Government’s Airplane-Safety Model to Stem Police Shootings?themarshallproject.org - Jamiles Lartey The transportation safety board works with federally-regulated air travel. A policing board would deal with thousands of local police …
The Marshall Project What Gate Money Can (And Cannot) Buythemarshallproject.org - Mia Armstrong Most states give money to people leaving prison. But some formerly incarcerated people say it's often not enough to meet their basic needs. As Ignacio …
The Marshall Project Want to Time Travel Back to the 80s? Visit a Prison “Typing Room”themarshallproject.org - Fernando Rivas “The typing room is where the optimism of naive, hopeful, recently incarcerated inmates goes to die.” Most federal prisons have a designated area for …
The Marshall Project Netflix Series Explores Costs of Not Believing Rape Victimsthemarshallproject.org - Ken Armstrong The series, “Unbelievable,” draws from our award-winning reporting with ProPublica and “This American Life.” This year, in Bartow, Florida, a man …
The Marshall Project In My Prison, Summer is “Ticket Season”themarshallproject.org - Demetrius Buckley “If you move the wrong way—ticket. You look the wrong way—ticket. Breathe—ticket.” There isn't much that we can do here in a Level 5 maximum-security …
The Marshall Project Same-Sex Couples in North Carolina Don’t Have Equal Abuse Protectionsthemarshallproject.org - Joseph Darius Jaafari A lawsuit seeks protective orders even when queer couples don’t live together. If the woman known as M.E. had lived with her girlfriend in North …
The Marshall ProjectImmigration Is It Time to Remove Immigration Courts From Presidential Control?themarshallproject.org - Julia Preston Calls grow to create an independent court system that protects immigration judges from political pressure. A string of directives from President …
The Marshall ProjectIcon version of the Flipboard logo Why are the Feds Arresting More Non-Citizens?themarshallproject.org - Andrew R. Calderón Most of the increase comes from immigration charges, not violent crime or drugs, a new report finds. The Trump administration has branded immigrants …
The Marshall Project Mourning a Stranger’s Suicide in Prisonthemarshallproject.org - Jennifer Toon “Together we prayed and talked about who this girl might have been—and who she might have become.” It was an average Texas prison weekend when it …
