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Q&A January 7, 2019
The Case Against Cannabis
A journalist’s pursuit of the truth about marijuana, mental illness and violence.
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Feature December 6, 2018
Bookshelf
Books about criminal justice, curated by The Marshall Project staff.
By The Marshall Project
Jennifer Thompson has spoken about how wrongful convictions contribute to crime by allowing the guilty to go free.
Q&A March 21, 2018
When the Innocent Go to Prison, How Many Guilty Go Free?
A husband and wife want to upend how we talk about wrongful convictions.
By Maurice Chammah
Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y., is one of the prisons where a pilot program requiring families to send care packages through private companies was temporarily installed and then suspended.
News January 12, 2018
New York Cancels Private Prison Care Packages Program
An uproar over cost, selection — and coloring books.
By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge
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
Life Inside August 10, 2017
What I Learned From the Neo-Nazi in My Prison Book Club
An inmate who grew up worshipping Hitler forces a reading group facilitator to challenge her own beliefs.
By Karen Lausa
Life Inside April 13, 2017
After 20 Years in Prison, All I Can Write Is Fantasy
An inmate, his typewriter and dreams of the Internet.
By Jerry Metcalf
Life Inside February 23, 2017
Fun in the Supermax
Trivial Pursuit, Ted Kaczynski, and candy bars.
By Blake Williams
Arthur Longworth leads a basic Spanish class for other inmates in Washington's Monroe Correctional Complex in 2012.
News October 25, 2016
Does the First Amendment End at the Prison Gate?
An inmate’s novel is the latest test.
By Eli Hager
Quiz September 30, 2015
Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Prison Censor?
Test yourself against the pros.
By Bill Keller
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