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Commentary July 13, 2018
It’s Still ‘Show Me’ the Money
Post-Ferguson, St. Louis County courts initiate reforms, but bail hasn’t yet gone away.
By Eddie Roth
Juvenile offenders wait to go to the gym inside the Lucas County Juvenile Detention Center in Toledo, Ohio.
Commentary May 15, 2017
Give Juveniles Their Due
Fifty years after a landmark Supreme Court case, juvenile courts still lack due process.
By Prya Murad
News and Awards February 5, 2017
Donovan X. Ramsey named Commentary Editor of The Marshall Project
Ramsey was previously deputy editor at Complex.com
By The Marshall Project
The Florence Federal Prison Complex in Florence, Colo.
Case in Point December 5, 2016
How America’s Most Famous Federal Prison Faced a Dirty Secret
The case that awakened us to the mental health trauma of “Supermax”
By Andrew Cohen
Commentary April 6, 2016
Oops, We Took 20 Years of Your Life by Mistake. Have a Nice Day.
What society owes the exonerated.
By Jarrett Adams
Justices on the United States Supreme Court in 1976.
Commentary March 30, 2016
It’s Been 40 Years Since the Supreme Court Tried to Fix the Death Penalty — Here’s How It Failed
A close look at the grand compromise of 1976.
By Evan J. Mandery
Commentary February 17, 2016
Scalia and the Right to Counsel
He would defend your liberty, but not your right to a lawyer.
By David Carroll
FILE - In this Aug. 29, 1995, file photo, O.J. Simpson, second from left, is surrounded by his attorneys, clockwise from left, Ken Spaulding, back towards camera, Gerald Uelmen, Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran Jr., as they discuss their plans for arguing the admissibility of the tapes of retired Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman in Los Angeles. A lawyer for O.J. Simpson in Las Vegas says the imprisoned former football star isn...t happy with portrayals he...s seen in ads and interviews about a cable TV series focusing on his 1995 murder acquittal in Los Angeles. Simpson won...t be able to see the show, “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” as Nevada prisons don...t carry the FX network, which debuts the 10-part show on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)
Commentary February 11, 2016
“Look at O.J. ... If He Had a Public Defender, He’d be in Jail.”
Why African-Americans don’t trust the courts, and why it matters.
By Sara Sternberg Greene
Commentary February 8, 2016
Black and Unarmed: Behind the Numbers
What the Black Lives Matter movement misses about those police shootings.
By Heather Mac Donald
Commentary January 15, 2016
Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall and the Way to Justice
Two towering lives in a prequel to Black Lives Matter.
By Wil Haygood
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