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How to Investigate Prison Staffing Trends in Your State
Our toolkit helps you report on how the widespread, long-term trend of declining prison staff affects both safety behind bars and state budgets.
A lone correctional officer walking in a prison cell block while incarcerated people are confined in their cells.
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.
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Office of Management and Budget staff members deliver President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget to the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill.
News March 12, 2019
First Step Act Comes Up Short in Trump’s 2020 Budget
Supporters worry because law seeks $75 million a year for five years, but president’s plan lists $14 million.
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A police officer in Washington, D.C. days before the inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump.
Analysis January 19, 2017
Trump Budget Draft Targets Cops, Crime Victims
Also civil rights enforcement and legal aid for the poor.
By The Marshall Project
News January 28, 2016
Why Getting Sued Could Be the Best Thing to Happen to New Orleans’ Public Defenders
The ACLU takes the cash-poor agency to court to force the cash-poor legislature to pay.
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Graphics February 12, 2015
The Cost of Crime Fighting
Reading between the line items of Department of Justice budgets, past and present.
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News December 17, 2014
Six Reasons the Death Penalty is Becoming More Expensive
Experts, experts and more experts.
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News November 18, 2014
Is Mass Incarceration Going Away?
New numbers from 28 states suggest otherwise.
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