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Jackson Newsletter November 21, 2024
We’re Voting Again: Nov. 26 Supreme Court Runoff
A faceoff in central Mississippi between the incumbent and a state senator.
By The Marshall Project - Jackson
Craig Rixner, moments after he was released from Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, in March.
Coronavirus April 1, 2020
Freed From Prison After 26 Years—Into a Coronavirus Hotspot
During the COVID-19 crisis, people coming home after decades behind bars find loved ones in quarantine, dire job prospects and overwhelmed social services agencies.
By
An illustration shows portraits of judicial candidates Jenifer B. Branning, left, and Jim Kitchens, right, and the words “Supreme Court Runoff Election Guide.”
Jackson November 20, 2024
Meet the 2 Candidates for Mississippi Supreme Court’s Nov. 26 Runoff Election
Justice Jim Kitchens faces state Sen. Jenifer B. Branning after neither won 50% of the vote on Nov. 5.
By The Marshall Project – Jackson
Life Inside October 19, 2017
I Served 26 Years for Murder Even Though the Killer Confessed
One of the strangest, cruelest stories of wrongful conviction you’ll ever read.
By Alton Logan and Berl Falbaum
News January 24, 2018
The Ultimate Insider Art
On Tennessee’s death row, the old aphorism applies: art is long, life is short.
By Jeremy Olds
Investigators search a car at the scene where Philando Castile was shot to death by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop.
Commentary July 11, 2016
Is Philando Castile the Ultimate Casualty of Driving While Black?
On paper, he looked like a career criminal. But look closer.
By
The updated rear holding compartment of a Prisoner Transportation Services van now has a video camera in the ceiling.
News December 7, 2016
Federal Official Urges Probe of ‘Abuse’ on Private Prisoner Transport
It is the latest call for an investigation of the for-profit extradition industry.
By and
A black-and-white photograph shows a large group of men in prison uniforms, a majority of whom are Black, with their fists up as they stand in a yard in front of a prison facility.
Life Inside September 12
‘Attica Day’ Is Fading Fast. Here’s Why This 53-Year-Old Tradition Still Matters.
For decades, New York prisoners have refused meals on Sept. 13 to mark the end of the 1971 Attica prison uprising. Inside a ritual in decline.
By Joseph Wilson
News and Awards March 16, 2022
The Marshall Project Expands Development Team With Two New Hires
Elizabeth Seuling will lead development team; Chavon Carroll will lead local fundraising.
By The Marshall Project
A composite photo of, from left: Jesse Bogan, a White man with glasses; Ivy Scott, a Black woman; Katie Moore, a Korean American woman; and Will Lager, a White man with glasses.
News and Awards February 11
The Marshall Project Announces St. Louis Local News Team
This will be our third local news team; this one will produce investigative, data and engagement journalism to serve audiences across Missouri.
By The Marshall Project
A photo shows an overview of the Mississippi Supreme Court floor. Eight justices sit in large leather chairs at a curved table, while a White man in a suit speaks from a podium near a round rug with the State Seal of Mississippi. People sitting at tables and benches opposite the justices are listening to the speaker.
Jackson November 20, 2024
How Mississippi’s Supreme Court Runoff Election Could Impact Criminal Cases
After the surprise defeat of one justice, the outcome of the Nov. 26 runoff between another justice and his challenger could change the court’s outlook.
By and
A man with dark-toned skin wears a black suit jacket and white dress shirt.
News and Awards April 19, 2022
Jim Crutchfield Named Editor-in-Chief of The Marshall Project’s First Local News Team in Cleveland
Crutchfield will lead Cleveland’s local news team and community-based journalism.
By The Marshall Project
Melany Barba walks over the Cordova International Bridge, which is otherwise known as the Bridge of the Americas on January 8, 2019.
Feature January 30, 2020
The Cheer Team Caught Between Two Worlds
For these Texas high schoolers who live in Mexico, the border wall debate is more about daily logistics than politics.
Photos by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz
Words by Nina Strochlic
News May 15, 2015
Executing Tsarnaev? Not So Fast.
Like many states, the feds have trouble getting the killer drugs.
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News and Awards April 3, 2024
The Marshall Project Wins Prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence
This is the third time the news site has won for the breadth and ambition of its coverage.
By The Marshall Project
Three screen captures from a video showing a courtroom scene where the judge sits at the bench on the right, and across a dark green carpet sits the prosecutor at a table. The images are overlaid on each other with edges overlapping. Behind the images in faded text appears language from the Florida immigration law that has been blocked by a federal judge.
Feature July 15
Arrested, Shackled and Deported from Florida — Despite a Federal Court Order
A man was convicted and deported to Mexico, and at least 26 other people have been arrested under a Florida immigration law that officials were ordered not to enforce.
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Three screen captures from a video showing a courtroom scene where the judge sits at the bench on the right, and across a dark green carpet sits the prosecutor at a table. The images are overlaid on each other with edges overlapping. Behind the images in faded text appears language from the Florida immigration law that has been blocked by a federal judge.
Español July 28
Arrestado y Deportado Desde Florida Bajo Una Ley Frenada Por Orden Federal
Un hombre fué condenado y deportado a México, y al menos otras 26 personas han sido detenidas, bajo una ley de inmigración de Florida que las autoridades tenían prohibido usar.
By , and
News and Awards December 4, 2023
The Marshall Project Partners With DocumentCloud for Upgraded Klaxon Site-Monitoring Tool
The Marshall Project originally launched the open-source reporting tool in 2016.
By The Marshall Project
Commentary September 4, 2015
About Those Rising Murder Rates: Not So Fast
(And the same goes for the “Ferguson Effect.”)
By Bruce Frederick
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is reflected in glass as he speaks the final night of the Republican National Convention.
Analysis July 22, 2016
Truth-testing Trump on Law and Order
“These are the facts,” he says. Mmmm, not so fast.
By The Marshall Project
Marshall, a man with light-toned skin, wears a blue suit jacket and glasses as he stands behind a podium. On person stands behind him and three are sitting.
News April 12
Who Is Billy Marshall? What to Know About Trump’s New Bureau of Prisons Director
West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency, and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with problems of its own.
By , and
Ronald Leftwich arguing for the Norfolk Prison Debating Society during a debate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. Daniel Throop, center, looks on.
Life Inside June 7, 2018
The Inside Story of a Legendary Prison Debate Team
Our victories over college students weren’t just for us—they were for incarcerated people everywhere.
By Daniel S. Throop
John Dumey and Sara Sindija
News and Awards May 22
The Marshall Project Strengthens Development Team With Two New Hires
John Dumey and Sara Sindija join The Marshall Project with deep experience in criminal justice fundraising.
By The Marshall Project
News and Awards August 26, 2022
Louis Fields Joins The Marshall Project - Cleveland Team
The newsroom adds an Outreach Manager.
By The Marshall Project
From left, headshots of Paul D'Ambrosio, a White man with glasses; Daja E. Henry, a Black woman; and Caleb Bedillion, a White man with a beard.
Jackson September 28, 2023
The Marshall Project Announces Mississippi Local News Team
Two journalists will produce enterprise and investigative journalism for audiences across Mississippi, including those affected by its criminal justice system.
By The Marshall Project
Brandon L. Garrett
Q&A October 2, 2017
What’s Behind the Decline in the Death Penalty?
A new book explores the slow demise of the ultimate punishment.
By
Five headshots of the people who make up The Marshall Project Cleveland Bureau.
News and Awards June 14, 2022
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
News December 18, 2015
Rape is Rape, Isn’t It?
It depends on who is counting, and what they count.
By T. Christian Miller and
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Cleveland Newsletter June 28, 2024
Kids Assigned Unqualified Attorneys in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court
Judges are taking problems with attorney assignments “seriously,” official says.
By The Marshall Project - Cleveland
A gray building with a sign reads: "United States Courthouse."
Closing Argument February 10, 2024
The AI Lawyer is Here
How Artificial Intelligence is making its way into the legal system.
By
Looking Back March 16, 2015
Cecil Clayton, a Man Missing Part of His Brain, is About to Be Executed
And he is not the first.
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The execution chamber at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Coronavirus March 23, 2020
How Coronavirus is Disrupting the Death Penalty
Colorado abolished capital punishment. But COVID-19 is pausing it everywhere else.
By and
News April 22, 2015
Policing is Not a Part-Time Job
A 25-year-veteran cop says the place for reservists is behind a desk.
By
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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From left, Stephan James and Sanaa Lathan in “Shots Fired,” a Fox television show.
Commentary May 21, 2017
Jeff Sessions Could Learn Something From Fox’s New Cop Show
A former senior DOJ official says ‘Shots Fired’ gets right what the AG gets wrong.
Ronald Davis
A Black man, wearing a KN95 mask, red shirt, red cap and camo pants, reviews a document while sitting in a courtroom.
Closing Argument July 15, 2023
For Many, a Lawyer Is a Luxury Out of Reach
Sixty years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the promise of legal representation for everyone is largely unrealized.
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News June 17, 2015
‘A System That Is Clearly Broken’
A Minnesota sex-offender program is under fire. How long can the state hold people for crimes they have not yet committed?
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Amanda Aguilar, a woman with light-toned skin and red hair, wears a red tank top and denim shorts while sitting on a lawn chair outside her home.
Feature February 14, 2024
Medical Marijuana Is Legal, But Oklahoma Is Charging Women for Using It While Pregnant
Courts are set to decide if using the drug during pregnancy is a crime, even as a growing number of women in the state face prosecution.
By Brianna Bailey, The Frontier
A man sleeps inside the dormitory at Fannie M. Lewis Community Corrections and Treatment Center, a halfway house for federal inmates, in Cleveland, Ohio.
News October 25, 2018
How Jeff Sessions Is Undermining Trump’s Prison Reform Agenda
The president wants to send more prisoners to halfway houses. The Justice Department is doing exactly the opposite.
By
An aerial view of a tan brick prison facility with cars parked in front.
Closing Argument July 19
Why Closing Prisons — Even Bad Ones — Is Complicated
From politics to economics, closing old or bad prisons is not always straightforward. Even some incarcerated people have mixed emotions.
By
News and Awards May 11, 2018
The Marshall Project Expands
A News Editor, Visual Projects Director, and Developer join our team.
By The Marshall Project
Three police officers stand in the middle of a street at night. Another group of officers stands on a lawn with crime scene tape wrapped around lamp poles in the background.
Closing Argument November 5, 2022
Ahead of Midterms, Most Americans Say Crime is Up. What Does the Data Say?
More people than ever believe crime is up in their area, polls show. But public perception doesn’t always match reality.
By , and
Life Inside November 2, 2017
What to Never Ask a Prison Wife
People say the darndest things when they hear your spouse is incarcerated.
By Heather Moore
T-Man, a Black teen wearing a red coat, stands in front of a yellow wall that has a mural painted on it. His face is not visible.
Feature June 5
This Mix of Therapies Is Helping to Stop Youth Violence in Chicago
A violence prevention program is pairing cognitive behavioral therapy with other support to keep high-risk teens out of jail.
By Ryan Levi and Dan Gorenstein
A white sign with the words “CoreCivic Midwest Regional Reception Center” is in front of barbed wire and a white building.
Feature July 1
Why a Prison Town That Voted for Trump Is Fighting an Immigration Detention Facility
Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.
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Life Inside June 4, 2020
I Wonder If They Know My Son Is Loved
Visiting my son in jail for the first time, I know that I cannot protect him. Although he is too young to drink, the criminal justice system regards him as an adult.
By Ymilul Bates
An illustration shows the back of a judge sitting on a chair. The head is a white, hollow silhouette. A paper stack is placed in the bottom right corner.
St. Louis June 26
Judges in Missouri Can Levy Death if Juries Deadlock. Some Say the Law Is Unconstitutional.
Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.
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Beth Chapman, left, and husband Duane “Dog” Chapman are introduced in the gallery of the Oklahoma Senate in Oklahoma City in April 2013.
News June 29, 2016
A Professional Bounty Hunter Who Likes the Bail System Just the Way It Is
A star of reality TV, Beth Chapman takes on those who say money bail is unfair.
By
A collage shows a color photo of a young White man with glasses and brown hair looking to the side while sitting down. In the foreground and out of focus, two men speak with each other. Around the photo are illustrations depicting a sonogram and brain scan, and photos of a middle-aged White man at a podium and of a memorial with candles and photos.
Feature September 17, 2024
5 Things to Know About How the Parkland Shooter’s Life Was Spared
Key takeaways from our investigation into how Nikolas Cruz’s defense team convinced jurors not to impose the death penalty.
By Joe Sexton
News and Awards February 11
Missouri Foundation for Health and The Marshall Project Announce New Missouri-Based Health and Justice Newsroom
A team of journalists will produce investigative, data and engagement journalism to serve the people of Missouri, including those affected by its criminal justice system.
By The Marshall Project
Feature June 28, 2015
This is Rikers
From the people who live and work there.
By The Marshall Project
Jamiles Lartey, left, and Cary Aspinwall.
News and Awards July 22, 2019
Reporters Jamiles Lartey and Cary Aspinwall join The Marshall Project
They are part of a new team focusing on the high incarceration states of the American South.
By The Marshall Project
News July 2, 2015
Is Google More Accurate Than the FBI?
In tracking deaths by police, the tech world might beat Uncle Sam.
By Mark Hansen
On the left, in focus, hangs a jacket with a patch that says “Corrections.” The design includes the state flag in the shape of Ohio with a sheriff’s star on top. Another star-shaped patch says “Corrections, Sheriff, Cuyahoga County.” On the right, out of focus, a person walks through the video visitation room of the Cuyahoga County Justice Complex.
Cleveland July 31
Who Is in the Cuyahoga County Jail? Finally, There’s an App for That
After years of debate, ‘The Sheriff App’ will allow people to use a smartphone to see who is in the Cuyahoga County jail.
By
The White House, a white, multi-story building with columns and a flag on top, is visible between an out-of-focus rainbow-colored flag held up by protesters and an out-of-focus blue, pink and white flag.
News May 22
Is Trump’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Prisoners Unconstitutional?
A federal judge considers if the president’s executive order barring hormone treatment in the Bureau of Prisons is cruel and unusual punishment.
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Life Inside January 28, 2022
I’m Having a Cancer Scare. But Prison Healthcare Is So Degrading, I’ve Quit Seeking Answers.
“Not knowing what is going on with my body will catch up to me, but I refuse to be treated inappropriately.”
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Coronavirus May 11, 2020
Ewwwww, What Is That?
Coronavirus has made Texas prison food even more gross.
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Analysis December 22, 2022
Some of Our Best Work of 2022
From coverage of prison violence and abuses in a juvenile lockup to investigations by our new Cleveland team, our reporters told stories that made a difference.
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A White woman in a gray suit delivers a speech at a podium with the federal Bureau of Prisons logo on it. In the background, an American flag can be seen on the left and the U.S. Department of Justice flag on the right.
News August 4, 2022
She Tried to ‘Humanize’ Prisons in Oregon. Can She Fix the Federal System?
Inspired by European models, the new Bureau of Prisons director built a Japanese garden in one penitentiary and made official language less demeaning. But some are skeptical of lasting reform.
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Justice Lab October 30, 2015
Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable… Or Is It?
A new study of the data says it depends on timing.
By Benjamin Ryan
Feature November 27, 2018
Why Is Karl Taylor Dead?
Our prisons are our mental wards. One fatal case in New York shows where that can lead.
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News December 19, 2018
“All We Have Here is Poverty and Drought”
How climate change is causing a food crisis that is driving Central Americans to the U.S. border.
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News November 18, 2014
Is Mass Incarceration Going Away?
New numbers from 28 states suggest otherwise.
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A probationer sits in a class at the Adult Day Reporting Center in Los Angeles in 2011.
Commentary August 28, 2017
When Less is More
How putting fewer people on probation and parole can reduce prison populations, save money and keep us safer.
By Vincent Schiraldi and Michael P. Jacobson
After suffering 10 years of extreme sexual, physical and mental abuse at the hands of her husband, Rody Alvarado fled her native Guatemala in 1995 and applied for asylum in the United States. Her asylum application was granted in 2009.
Analysis June 12, 2018
Is Domestic Violence Private?
It took 20 years for courts to say no. It took Jeff Sessions no time to say yes.
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Analysis September 26, 2016
Who is ICE Deporting?
Obama’s promise to focus on “felons not families” has fallen short
By and
Feature August 20, 2020
Two Families, Two Fates: When the Misdiagnosis Is Child Abuse
The power of child-abuse pediatric specialists and parents’ unequal journey toward justice
By Stephanie Clifford
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee D. Michael Dunavant is one of three Justice Department prosecutors who have challenged the state ethics board’s new discovery rule.
News August 13, 2018
Why Tennessee Is Challenging the DOJ's Ethics
A clash over evidence that could help defendants has wider implications.
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Justice Lab May 24, 2018
Your Home is Your...Snitch?
When your appliances work as police informants.
By Daniel Zwerdling
An employee at a medical marijuana cultivator in Ohio works with a marijuana plant.
Q&A January 14, 2019
How Dangerous is Marijuana, Really?
A Marshall Project virtual roundtable.
By The Marshall Project
Jerry Jurek was convicted of killing 10-year-old Wendy Adams in 1973. His case went to the Supreme Court as one of several testing new death penalty laws around the country. Pictured here in 1979, left, and 2015, right.
Looking Back January 26, 2021
The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Marshall Project staff writer Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.
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News April 11, 2016
The State That is Taking on the Prison Guards Union
For decades, New York state’s corrections officers union has held the power in disciplinary decisions.
By Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz and
Q&A September 18, 2015
‘Sex is Not a Service’
A former prostitute makes the case for busting johns.
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Q&A May 7, 2015
‘Methadone Is Better Than Jail’
A conversation with Sandie Alger, former inmate and recovering heroin addict.
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Justice Lab March 27, 2017
Happiness is a Warm Phaser
The search for the truly nonlethal weapon.
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Quiz April 10, 2016
How Racist is Too Racist?
Take our quiz on juror bias.
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Q&A January 20, 2016
Is Charles Koch a Closet Liberal?
Not hardly. But he’s for rolling back the war on drugs, ending mass incarceration, and letting former convicts vote.
By
Life Inside January 10, 2019
Why Showering in Prison Is Hell
“Step by step, I shuffle forward amid the mass of bodies, waiting to get inside.”
By Jason Wright
News April 22, 2015
When Your Insulin Pump is Contraband
What diabetics face behind bars.
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Feature December 10, 2014
Our Jury Is In on “Serial”
The lawyers favor acquittal.
By
Feature April 19, 2016
The ‘Chicago Model’ of Policing Hasn’t Saved Chicago
Why is everyone else copying it?
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Feature August 13, 2020
‘Con Air’ Is Spreading COVID-19 All Over the Federal Prison System
U.S. Marshals are transporting prisoners without testing them for coronavirus
By Keegan Hamilton AND
Life Inside August 29, 2019
In My Prison, Summer is “Ticket Season”
“If you move the wrong way—ticket. You look the wrong way—ticket. Breathe—ticket.”
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Michael Mejia during a pre-trial hearing in February where Mejia was charged with murder for the killings of Officer Keith Boyer in Whittier and his own cousin, 47-year-old Roy Torres, in East Los Angeles earlier that day.
The California Experiment May 10, 2018
Whose Fault is Michael Christopher Mejia?
A cop killing in California fuels a reform backlash.
By and Richard Winton
A voter casts a ballot during early voting in the Bronx Borough of New York City on November 1, 2024. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / AFP) (Photo by DAVID DEE DELGADO/AFP via Getty Images)
Closing Argument November 2, 2024
Election Day 2024: Where Criminal Justice Is On the Ballot
From reproductive rights to border enforcement and marijuana legalization, voters across the nation will weigh in on criminal justice issues.
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News April 24, 2015
Why is it So Hard for the Justice Department to Curb Police Abuse?
Ask the experts in a Facebook chat Friday at noon ET.
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An peer counselor at Insite demonstrates how someone would use one of their injection booths.
News November 6, 2015
Is the U.S. Ready for Safe Injection Rooms?
A widespread heroin problem could open the door to a once-radical idea.
By
People lined up outside the building that houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the immigration court in Atlanta in June.
Analysis August 28, 2019
Is It Time to Remove Immigration Courts From Presidential Control?
Calls grow to create an independent court system that protects immigration judges from political pressure.
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Kim Foxx, a Black woman wearing a tan suit, speaks into mics held by reporters surrounding her.
Closing Argument November 23, 2024
Is The Age of Progressive Prosecutors Over?
Some believe progressive prosecutors have had their moment, but others argue that view misinterprets what’s happening across the country.
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Boston University police officers conferred while students protested outside of the office of the dean of students on April 3, demanding that the university pledge to protect students from the federal government regardless of their immigration status.
Closing Argument April 5
Trump Is Targeting International Students Over Pro-Palestinian Protests. But Is It Legal?
After the administration revoked 300 students’ visas, the courts will have to decide if the Constitution protects the free speech of noncitizens.
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FBI agents investigate a shooting in front of the Empire State Building August 24, 2012 on Fifth Avenue in New York. A gunman and one other person were killed and numerous others wounded Friday during a mass shooting at rush hour outside New York’s Empire State Building, police said. Streets around one of the Big Apple’s biggest attractions were closed as police flooded the area. A disgruntled former employee at a women’s apparel shop shot a former co-worker outside the Empire State Building before being killed by police, officials said Friday in the first detailed account of the mayhem. In total, two people were killed and nine wounded, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told a news conference. The shooter was identified as Jeffrey Johnson, 53, and his victim was aged 41, Kelly said. AFP PHOTO/STAN HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages)
News March 12, 2015
Why Is the FBI so White?
The nation diversifies. The bureau, not so much.
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The hand of a person with light-toned skin holds a red, white and blue sticker that reads “Yo voté!” “M’ vote!” “I voted!” and “iamelectionready.”
Election 2024 August 16, 2024
FAQ: How The Marshall Project Is Covering the 2024 Election
Learn more about who we are and how we choose what political stories to cover.
By The Marshall Project
The Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans, in 2015.
Coronavirus April 13, 2020
The Judge Will See You On Zoom, But The Public Is Mostly Left Out
Volunteers who monitor courts across the country say they are getting little access to online-only proceedings.
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News February 2, 2015
Is an Emoji Worth 1,000 Words?
A new set of characters enters the courtroom lexicon.
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News August 31, 2015
In the Execution Business, Missouri Is Surging
Defense lawyers call it a crisis; the state says it’s just doing its job.
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In response to a reduction in police officers in Memphis, Tenn., the Blue Suede Brigade, a private security force, patrols the city’s tourist areas. From left, Blue Suede Brigade members Kcbena Cash, Tamala Johnson and Nathaniel Lewis worked the night shift.
Feature February 13, 2019
Is the Answer to Crime More Cops?
It’s not how many, it’s how you use them.
By and Wendi C. Thomas
Joseph Malott, a 22-year-old architecture student, was attacked and bitten by a police dog in Walnut Creek, California, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration on June 1.
Feature October 2, 2020
When Police Violence Is a Dog Bite
An Alabama man killed by a K-9 officer was one of thousands of Americans bitten by police dogs every year. Few ever get justice.
By , Challen Stephens, Ryan Martin, Dana Brozost Kelleher and Andrew Fan
News June 19, 2015
When is a Crime a Hate Crime?
Dylann Roof and the challenges of proving bias.
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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
Danielle Sered is the director of Common Justice, an organization that operates an alternative-to-incarceration and victim service program for serious and violent felonies.
Q&A February 16, 2017
Is Prison the Answer to Violence?
An advocate (and survivor) makes the case for another approach.
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