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News and Awards March 31, 2020
“Tutwiler” Selected for Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
A new documentary from The Marshall Project and Frontline (PBS) offers a rare look at the lives of expectant mothers inside a notorious women’s prison.
By The Marshall Project
News October 21, 2019
'Tutwiler' Reveals the Heartbreak of Pregnancy in Prison
A new documentary from The Marshall Project and Frontline (PBS) offers a rare look at the lives of expectant mothers inside a notorious women’s prison.
By and Elaine Mcmillion Sheldon
Left: Mark Jones, serving life without parole in a Florida prison. Right: Incarcerated women at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama.
Feature September 5, 2023
The Marshall Project and FRONTLINE Present ‘Two Strikes’ and ‘Tutwiler’
A special broadcast of two short documentaries gives a rare insight into life behind bars.
Two Strikes by Ursula Liang, Tessa Travis and
Tutwiler by Elaine McMillion Sheldon and
Left: Mark Jones, serving life without parole in a Florida prison. Right: Incarcerated women at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama.
News and Awards August 29
Watch the Trailer for ‘Two Strikes’ and ‘Tutwiler’
The Marshall Project and Frontline’s short prison documentaries will air on PBS and can be streamed online.
By The Marshall Project
Left: Mark Jones, serving life without parole in a Florida prison. Right: Incarcerated women at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama.
News and Awards August 18
The Marshall Project and FRONTLINE Present Documentary Special About U.S. Prisons
FRONTLINE will screen “Two Strikes” and “Tutwiler” on September 5.
By The Marshall Project
Pregnant and post-partum mothers from the film ‘Tutwiler’ share photos of their children with each other at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama.
News and Awards May 19, 2021
The Marshall Project Wins Two Deadline Club Awards
Honored for our documentaries “Tutwiler” and “Anatomy of Hate.”
The Marshall Project
Pregnant and post-partum mothers from the film ‘Tutwiler’ share photos of their children with each other at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama.
Feature May 6, 2020
The Separation
Introducing “Tutwiler,” a new Marshall Project/Frontline documentary about women in an Alabama prison who support each other through pregnancy, labor and saying goodbye to their newborns.
Directed by Elaine Mcmillion Sheldon. Produced and Reported by .
News December 17, 2014
Peeping Toms
Do prison inmates have a right to privacy?
By
Elizabeth Holmes, a White woman with blonde hair, is visibly pregnant and walking with a female member of her defense team in a photo.
Analysis March 16
Elizabeth Holmes Has Two Young Children. Should That Keep Her Out of Prison?
Sending new moms to prison has devastating consequences. Some states are starting to rethink the practice.
By
The Marshall Project’s nominations for the 2020 Online Journalism Awards include “Digital Video Storytelling” for “Tutwiler,” our short documentary produced in partnership with FRONTLINE.
News and Awards September 3, 2020
The Marshall Project Named Finalist for 10 Online Journalism Awards
Nominated for “General Excellence” and so much more.
By The Marshall Project
Analysis December 20, 2023
Some of Our Best Work of 2023
In podcasts, broadcasts and narrative stories, we examined prison conditions, prosecutions of pregnant women, Dungeons & Dragons on death row, and more.
By
Life Inside August 4, 2022
Prison Money Diaries: What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars
We asked people in prison to track their earning and spending — and bartering and side hustles — for 30 days. Their accounts reveal a thriving underground economy behind bars.
By
Analysis December 21, 2020
Some of Our Best Work of 2020
From the sweeping impacts of COVID-19 to the protests against racial injustice, 2020 was a year like no other.
By
Feature April 12, 2016
The Prison Visit That Cost My Family $2,370
How loved ones bear the hidden cost of shipping inmates out of state.
by and Rui Kaneya
The System November 13, 2020
Life Behind the Wall
Sure, prisons and jails are dangerous places. But everyday life inside isn’t as explosive as TV and movies make it look.
By and Annaliese Griffin
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