The Marshall Project

Commentary October 16

The Video Doesn’t Lie — Even If the Officer Did

A retired police officer reflects on the Jason Van Dyke verdict.

By Neill Franklin

News October 15

Police With Military Experience More Likely to Shoot

Dallas cops who were veterans fired their weapons more than those who never served in the armed forces, study shows.

By Simone Weichselbaum

Life Inside October 11

I Met My Friend in Prison. Now I Doubt His Innocence.

A prison volunteer's belief in second chances faces a difficult test.

By Damian Zurro

Commentary October 11

The Terrible Cost of The Sentence

Powerful HBO documentary chronicles family trauma caused by mandatory minimums.

By Robin Washington

News October 9

More Women Are Behind Bars Now. One Prison Wants to Change That.

Connecticut’s WORTH program uses therapy, classes and mentoring to try to keep women from coming back.

By Maurice Chammah

Commentary October 8

Forget The Ticket — Could You Get Arrested For A Parking Violation?

Supreme Court lets stand lower court ruling extending pretextual stops to parking infractions.

By Katy Naples-Mitchell

Life Inside October 4

Shattering the Maximum Security Ceiling

“I want to do the work that the guys do.”

by Gina Clark as told to Manuel Villa

The Frame October 4

The Prison Portraits

A Pennsylvania artist draws hundreds of fellow inmates to show the scale of mass incarceration.

By Maurice Chammah
Illustrations by Mark Loughney

Feature October 3

Banished

After passing a series of restrictive housing laws, Miami-Dade County faces an odd predicament: bands of nomadic sex offenders and a cat-and-mouse game to move them.

By Beth Schwartzapfel and Emily Kassie

News October 2

Louisiana’s Taurus Buchanan Wins Parole After 25 Years

At 16, one deadly punch sent him away for life. The Supreme Court gave him a second chance at freedom.

By Nicole Lewis