Investigate Your State
July 1
We learned no more than 1 in 4 of the newly eligible voters had registered for the 2020 election in four key states. Here’s how to examine yours.
News
June 23
In a handful of key states, no more than 1 in 4 formerly incarcerated people registered in time for the 2020 election, a Marshall Project analysis found.
Life Inside
March 12, 2020
"We asked ourselves: Do we want to change our conditions, or do we want to change our circumstances?"
News
September 19, 2019
The state’s byzantine felony disenfranchisement laws keep hundreds of thousands of formerly incarcerated residents from registering to vote.
Commentary
November 13, 2018
Voters Want Criminal Justice Reform. Are Politicians Listening?
Midterms show wide support across party lines for changing the system.
Commentary
November 7, 2018
With the passage of Amendment 4, more than a million people intimately affected by the criminal justice system have become more empowered to shape it.
Analysis
November 1, 2018
Our roundup: drugs, policing, juries, even slavery.
Commentary
August 20, 2018
Denying voting rights to people with felony convictions has roots in racist laws.
News
August 1, 2018
Do states have an obligation to educate formerly incarcerated people about their new rights?
Case in Point
October 24, 2016
Ex-prisoners challenge a law that lets local bureaucrats judge “moral turpitude.”