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What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most authoritative articles on the topics, people and events that are shaping the criminal justice conversation. The Marshall Project does not endorse the viewpoints or vouch for the accuracy of reports other than its own.

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Why Would Prisons Ban My Book? Absurdities Rule the System

Censorship kept me from finishing a college essay behind bars. Now, prisons might keep readers from my memoir.

Feature • 12.21.2022

The Books Banned in Your State’s Prisons

We asked all state systems for book policies and ban lists, then created a database for you.

Graphics • 12.21.2022

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.

Feature • 06.07.2022

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