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Death Sentences
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.
News
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
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
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January 2021 Insurrection
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
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
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
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
Opening Statement
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Supreme Court Sides With Biden’s Efforts to End ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in to Supreme Court
How Trump World pressures witnesses to deny his possible wrongdoing
Migrant tragedy: Remembering the victims
Biden Endorses Ending Filibuster to Codify Abortion Rights
‘Acting with deliberate indifference’: Judge finds Arizona fails to provide prisoners with adequate health care
Feds open sweeping probe into work of NYPD sex crimes unit
FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans
California Takes Down Firearms Dashboard After Gun-Owner Data Are Leaked
Texas AG Ken Paxton would defend sodomy law if SCOTUS revisits Lawrence same-sex relationships case
Sheriffs who denounced Colorado’s red flag law are now using it
Don’t Forget That 43 Senate Republicans Let Trump Get Away With It
Opinion
The Tragedy in San Antonio Was Part of a Historic Migrant Death Crisis – Texas Monthly
Neil Gorsuch Couldn’t Save Tribal Sovereignty From His Conservative Colleagues’ Wrath
Immigrants Reduce Unionization in the United States
New York wields new nuisance law against manufacturers of ghost guns
Supreme Court justices changed mind on death penalty after Furman case
ICE Enacts New Policy Protecting Media From Legal Demands
1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
Crime Without Punishment
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
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
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