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Five suspects sit in separate interrogation rooms at a police station in Phoenix, Arizona.
Coronavirus July 20, 2020
Your Zoom Interrogation Is About To Start
COVID-19 is changing how police question suspects and witnesses—for the better, some argue.
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At the top left corner of an illustration, the word “suspended” is stamped in red over a Black man’s Ohio driver’s license. At the bottom right is an illustration of a judge’s brown gavel.
Cleveland Newsletter March 27
License Suspended? Help Is Coming in April
New law will wipe out many debt-related suspensions.
By The Marshall Project - Cleveland
Thomas Gant.
Life Inside April 10, 2020
I Was a Prison Hospice Aide. Then Came Coronavirus.
“I know firsthand how the looming threat of COVID-19 is being absorbed by all of us behind the walls.”
By Thomas Gant
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Analysis March 2, 2017
Trump’s Radical Departure on Immigration
A softer tone from the White House belies a harsher reality.
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Q&A September 1, 2015
Why High-Profile Murders Are Ripe for Conspiracy Theories
A history professor examines an American phenomenon.
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Prisoners at the Cook County Jail cast their votes in the Illinois primary election after a polling place in the facility was opened for early voting in early March of this year in Chicago.
Coronavirus April 24, 2020
The 470,000 Potential Voters Most Likely To Be Disenfranchised Next Election
Voting rights for people in jail is becoming another casualty of COVID-19.
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A corrections officer checks a death row cell at San Quentin State Prison in California.
Crime on the Ballot October 19, 2016
Three States to Watch if You Care About the Death Penalty
Nebraska, Oklahoma, and California will test the prospects of abolition.
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In a targeted enforcement operation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested hundreds of foreign nationals.
Analysis February 20, 2017
Trump’s First Roundup
What we learned from that surge of immigrant arrests
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A bail bond agency on Baxter Street in New York City.
News March 14, 2019
New York City’s Bail Success Story
Judges have drastically cut back on bail and jail in criminal cases, a new study shows. And defendants are still showing up in court.
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Feature December 22, 2014
16-Hour Shifts, 300 Inmates to Watch, and 1 Lonely Son
The very sleep-deprived life of a corrections officer.
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Presidential hopefuls squared off at the second night of Democratic primary debates in Detroit in July, debating some criminal justice issues but overlooking many others.
The Lowdown August 1, 2019
Beyond One-Liners: A Guide to the Democratic Debate on Criminal Justice
By The Marshall Project
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