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The Supreme Court Let The Death Penalty Flourish. Now Americans are Ending It Themselves.
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Out on Parole in Colorado? You Can Vote.
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Louisiana Limits Solitary Confinement for Youth
News and Awards June 28
Data Reporter Geoff Hing Joins The Marshall Project
Hing will expand investigative data journalism and reporting to expose abuses in criminal justice.
By The Marshall Project
A man with dark-toned skin wears a black suit jacket and white dress shirt.
News and Awards June 17
A Letter from our Cleveland Editor-in-Chief
The Marshall Project: A Journalism Public Service, Now Serving Cleveland
by Jim Crutchfield
An illustration shows a bird's-eye view of a light-skinned person in an orange prison suit handcuffed, sitting at a table with a courtroom microphone.
Life Inside June 17
I Joined the Parole Board to Make a Difference. Now I Call It ‘Conveyor Belt Justice.’
Between the grueling schedule, copious paperwork, abrupt hearings and risk-averse colleagues, prison reformer Carol Shapiro realized the New York parole system was dysfunctional by design.
By Carol Shapiro as told to Beth Schwartzapfel
March 2022 - Del Rio, Texas..Migrants from Venezuela cross the Rio Grande into Del Rio on March 23. They were approached by National Guard from North Dakota and told to walk towards the Border Patrol who were gathering migrants under the bridge for transport.
Feature June 16
“No Place for A Child”
In cells built for adults, one-third are child migrants. Border authorities have resisted improving conditions for minors in crowded, freezing facilities.
By Anna Flagg and Julia Preston
The federal prison complex in Thomson, Illinois.
News June 14
Lawmakers Call for Probe Into Deadly Federal Prison
Following a Marshall Project/NPR report detailing violence and abuse at the newest federal penitentiary, three members of Congress asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate.
By Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project and Joseph Shapiro, NPR
Five headshots of the people who make up The Marshall Project Cleveland Bureau.
News and Awards June 14
The Marshall Project Announces Cleveland Local News Team
A roster of award-winning journalists will produce investigative, data and engagement journalism to serve the people of Cuyahoga County, including those affected by its criminal justice system.
By The Marshall Project
Analysis June 14
What Can FBI Data Say About Crime in 2021? It’s Too Unreliable to Tell
The transition to a new data system creates huge gaps in national crime stats sure to be exploited by politicians in this election year.
By Weihua Li
An illustration shows Susan Begg in an dark orange prison uniform, reading a newspaper while sitting on top of her prison bed. Various crossword puzzle columns and rows are displayed at the foreground.
Life Inside June 10
The ‘Foul-Mouthed Pagan Lesbian’ Who Inspired My Jail Memoir
Keri Blakinger’s new book, “Corrections in Ink,” began with Susan Begg, an older woman the author met on her second day in jail. If only Susan had lived to see it in print.
By Keri Blakinger
A group of people walk through a dark hallway with prison cells on either side.
Feature June 9
Rethinking Prison Tourism
Many former prison sites draw on the spooky and salacious to entertain visitors. But some are having second thoughts.
By Hope Corrigan
Feature June 7
A Tupperware of Heroin, Or How I Ended Up in Prison
In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘Corrections in Ink,’ Keri Blakinger puts us at the scene of her drug arrest — and her path to becoming The Marshall Project’s first formerly incarcerated staff writer.
By Keri Blakinger
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