Tom Meagher

My Background

I enjoy leading highly collaborative projects that expose how the criminal justice system operates in desperate circumstances.

For more than five years, I edited “The Next to Die,” which relied on a network of journalists in 10 newsrooms to track every execution in the country. In 2019, I edited “Detained,” an examination of the century-long history of immigration detention in the U.S. And I produced “The Zo,” an animated series exploring the surreal nature of life in prison.

With two Marshall Project colleagues, I reported a series about how New York prison officials fail to fire correctional officers accused of serious abuse of incarcerated people.

Before joining The Marshall Project at its inception in 2014, I led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and a data team at the Newark Star-Ledger. I began my career covering night cops for a small daily paper in Kansas.