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Redemption Songs
With ‘Live on Death Row,’ Rapper Rrome Alone Condemns the Death Penalty
Closing Argument
Why New York’s ‘Precision Policing’ Raises Civil Rights Concerns
Life Inside
Healing From My Prison Rape Requires Time, Therapy and Friends Who Don’t Blame the Victim

The Marshall Project

A photo shows a Black boy turned away from the camera with two Haitian flags sticking out of his shirt collar.
News June 25
What the Supreme Court’s TPS Ruling Means for Haitians and Syrians
Advocates say the decision to allow Trump to end temporary protected status will send Haitians to “violent, needless deaths.”
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An illustration with dark teal, red, orange and yellow tones shows a complex of multistory jail buildings. From left to right, three boxes show a jail employee with medium skin tone with a phone up to his ear, two incarcerated men with medium and medium-light skin tones fighting, and the legs of an incarcerated person on a bed in the foreground and a correctional officer with his back turned in the background.
Analysis June 25
Hundreds of Calls for Help: What 911 Logs Reveal About the Local Jail
From assaults to suicide attempts, emergency calls can be a sign of problems that jails can’t handle on their own.
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A photo shows Lawrence Bartley, a Black man in a dark gray T-shirt, speaking outside in front of a doorway.
News and Awards June 22
The Next Chapter of ‘Inside Story’
Season three will explain the systems shaping our lives.
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A photo shows a White man with glasses standing at a podium. The wood-grained podium has a sign that reads: “The Great Seal of the State of Ohio”. Behind him is an American flag and a flag of the state of Ohio.
Cleveland June 22
Ohio Governor Grants Mercy to Man on Death Row For First Time
Weeks before calling to abolish capital punishment in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine commuted the man’s death sentence to life in prison without parole.
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A photo shows a White man, in a white prison uniform with his hands behind his back, standing behind visitation room glass.
Death Sentences June 22
How The Death Penalty At 50 Is Far More Broken Than We Knew
The racial disparities, the arbitrary outcomes, the endless waiting and the risk of executing the innocent persist.
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Redemption Songs June 21
Ear Hustle’s Antwan Banks Williams Goes Deep on ‘Like Father, Like Son’
Two years after the podcast’s co-creator’s dad died, he used hip-hop to celebrate their bond.
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A photo shows a woman with medium skin tone through a window frame, wearing a pink jacket and purple tie-dye leggings, looks at her phone while standing outside her home.
Closing Argument June 20
How Government Fines of $1 Million+ Are Increasingly Targeting Immigrants
A 1996 law allowing fines for some immigrants was rarely used — until Donald Trump’s second term began.
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A blue-toned illustration shows an umbilical cord turning into a telephone cord, the eyes of a middle-aged man and the eyes of a young woman. Inside the man’s pupils is a Black man smiling at a baby. Inside the young woman’s pupils is the figure of a man leaving through a doorway.
Life Inside June 19
I Tried to Protect My Oldest Daughter From Pain. I Didn’t Think I Would Be the Source of It.
“I saw every evil thing lurking from afar. What I didn’t see was that my own behavior problems and my toxic masculinity could cause damage.”
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The Last 12 Weeks June 18
The Countdown to David Wood’s Execution Date
One week before their client is set to die, the defense team awaits a final ruling.
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The Last 12 Weeks June 18
Meeting David Wood — And One of His Victims
We visit death row, where David Wood tries to clear his name. But not before a victim of his crimes has her say.
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