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Life Inside
Tackling a Huge Taboo: Sexual Desire Behind Bars
Feature
Two Strikes and You’re in Prison Forever
Life Inside
Why My First Thanksgiving in Prison Was The Best One I’d Had In Forever
News and Awards November 17
The Marshall Project to Launch Criminal Justice News Operation in Cleveland
New support from the Gund Foundation to drive expansion of local investigative reporting
By The Marshall Project
Issue 9 of News Inside. Download the PDF <a href="https://d63kb4t2ifcex.cloudfront.net/upload/assets/news-inside-issue-9.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.
News Inside November 17
Have It Your Way
Issue 9 of News Inside meets you where you are.
By Lawrence Bartley
Inside Out November 11
Mugshots Stay Online Forever. Some Say the Police Should Stop Making Them Public.
As many news outlets cut back on publishing mugshots, some states and cities are grappling with a more fundamental question: Why do police release the images — and should they be allowed to?
By Keri Blakinger
Feature November 11
He Got a Life Sentence When He Was 22 — For Robbery
Black men are most affected by Florida’s two-strikes law.
By Dan Sullivan, Cary Aspinwall and Weihua Li
Life Inside November 4
An Ode to Memo, the Cellmate and Art Teacher Who Saved My Life
After decades in the system, I was acting like a wild horse roaming the countryside. Memo taught me how to paint through the chaos.
By Rafael Rodriguez
News and Awards November 4
The Marshall Project Awarded American Journalism Project Grant
Funding will support development of local news teams, expanded local news infrastructure.
By The Marshall Project
Feature November 2
Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.
By Abbie VanSickle and Weihua Li
Lance Lowry, who recently retired after 20 years as a corrections officer, outside the Huntsville Unit in Texas.
News November 1
As Corrections Officers Quit in Droves, Prisons Get Even More Dangerous
Fewer guards lead to more lockdowns, rising tensions and scant access to healthcare.
By Keri Blakinger, Jamiles Lartey, Beth Schwartzapfel, Mike Sisak and Christie Thompson
Feature October 31
Arizona Privatized Prison Health Care to Save Money. But at What Cost?
A landmark class-action lawsuit goes to court this week, featuring grisly testimony about botched medical care in state prisons.
By Beth Schwartzapfel and Jimmy Jenkins
Feature October 22
Police Say Jiu-jitsu Can Make Them Less Violent During Arrests
But will cops training in martial arts lead to struggles that didn’t need to happen?
By Jamiles Lartey
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