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The Basics of Bail in Ohio
How do people get out of jail while they’re accused of a crime?. Testify is The Marshall Project’s investigation into Cuyahoga County’s Criminal Courts. When people are arrested and charged with a crime, they’re often taken into custody and held in jail. Then, early on in their cases, most defendants are offered bail. At this stage, they are presumed to be innocent.
The Never-Ending Murder Case: How Mental Competency Laws Can Trap People With Dementia
One afternoon in the fall of 2019, bailiffs guided a gray-haired man in a green sweatshirt and shackles into a courtroom in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The 83-year-old’s eyes scanned the gallery, where two of his children sat near local reporters and TV news crews. Jose Veguilla was being charged with murder — but he didn’t know it.
Kristin Bausch and Chris Vazquez Join The Marshall Project as Audience Engagement Producers
Bausch and Vazquez will bolster, in particular, the newsroom’s journalistic visuals and videos on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer-winning nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice, has hired Kristin Bausch and Chris Vazquez as audience engagement producers. In these new roles, Bausch and Vazquez will work together to ensure The Marshall Project continues to strengthen its connection with its current audiences, under the guidance of Audience Director Ashley Dye. They will also focus on reaching prospective readers and viewers, especially underserved groups like younger generations and people who are currently or formerly incarcerated and their families.
Help Wanted (in Prison): Texas Recruits High School Kids To Be Corrections Officers
Short on guards, the state hopes to attract students enrolled in career training programs once they turn 18. PALESTINE, Texas — Kiara Guley wants to be a cosmetologist when she graduates from high school next year. But after taking a training program at the public school in this rural town, the 17-year-old has a Plan B: Become a prison guard. Hundreds of high schools across Texas offer classes to prepare students for careers in law enforcement, including corrections. This career-training program is the biggest of its kind in the country, enrolling almost 162,000 students in the school year that just ended.
What the Fight Over Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Reveals About Policing of Protests
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. Atlanta voters may soon get a say in what the future of police training looks like in their city. —...
Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, But Allows Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Do you have any tips? Feedback? Contact us at bookbans@themarshallproject.org. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) has a host of policies controlling which books people can have in prisons, how they can get them, and what they can do with them. Incarcerated people in Ohio have been denied...
DeSantis Claims Florida’s Crime is at a ‘Record Low.’ But He’s Using Incomplete Data
In announcing his presidential bid, Florida’s governor relied on data from only half of the state’s law enforcement agencies. When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his bid for the presidency on Twitter Spaces last month, he touted Florida’s low crime rate as a proud accomplishment. — “Claiming that Florida is unsafe is a total farce,” DeSantis said in the announcement. “I mean, are you kidding me? You look at cities around this country, they are awash in crime. In Florida, our crime rate is at a 50-year low.”
Trump’s Case Highlights a New Era of ‘Judge Shopping’
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. When former President Donald Trump sued Hillary Clinton in 2022 over campaign rhetoric from the 2016 election, he tried unsuccessfully...
New Bias Complaints Continue to Target Top Cuyahoga County Judge
The controversy around Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze of the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court has grown amid additional complaints of potential biases lodged with the Ohio Supreme Court. New affidavits of disqualification filed by a Strongsville businessman say Celebrezze approved thousands of dollars of payments for work done by her...
A Battle Over First Amendment Rights in Prisons
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. On Monday, The Marshall Project received a tip: New York state prisons were quietly adopting new rules to clamp down...
Don’t ‘Punish Them More.’ Effort Grows to Ease Job Barriers After Prison Release
Promise Stewart and Santonio Ford met 18 years ago, on a prison bus headed to a halfway house in Cleveland. They noticed each other’s edge-ups and began a conversation that changed their lives. Stewart, now 58, had just served two years at the Mansfield Correctional Institution on drug charges....
Phil Trexler Joins The Marshall Project as New Cleveland Editor-in-Chief
Trexler comes to The Marshall Project - Cleveland with broadcast, digital and print journalism experience. The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer-winning nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice, has appointed Phil Trexler the new editor-in-chief for The Marshall Project - Cleveland. In his new role with The Marshall Project - Cleveland, Trexler will oversee the Cleveland newsroom’s investigative reporting on Cuyahoga County’s criminal justice system and guide reporters in investigative, data and community engagement journalism that directly serves local audiences.
When a Conviction is Challenged, What Do We Owe the Victim’s Family?
Subscribe to “Smoke Screen: Just Say You’re Sorry.”. In the summer of 2022, Larry Driskill received stunning news: The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles had voted to release him on parole, and he would soon walk out of prison. But he wouldn’t be truly free. He remained officially convicted of the murder of Bobbie Sue Hill.
Three Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Police Reforms Are Slow-Paced
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. By any standard, the Paterson, New Jersey Police Department was exceptionally troubled. — Since 2019, itsofficers have been involved in...
A Judge, a Kiss, and $450,000-plus in Court Work
An Ohio Supreme Court filing has prompted questions about the personal relationship between a judge and a contractor for whom she has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars for work he does in her courtroom. Administrative Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze of the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court has known Mark...
Stephen Breyer Wants the Supreme Court to Avoid ‘Self-inflicted’ Wounds
The retired justice spoke with The Marshall Project on abortion, the death penalty and the court’s reputation. Additional sound editing and design by Raghuram Vadarevu and Katie Park. Until his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court last year, Stephen Breyer spent 28 years hearing cases that profoundly shaped American...
As a Texas Ranger Gains National Fame, His Interrogations Draw Skepticism
Subscribe to “Smoke Screen: Just Say You’re Sorry.”. Texas Ranger James Holland is one of the most celebrated homicide detectives of the last decade. The Los Angeles Times called him a “serial killer whisperer,” after he helped convince California prisoner Sam Little to confess to more than 90 murders. Following Holland’s work, the FBI declared Little, who drew pictures of many of his victims, the “most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.”
How Tech Like ShotSpotter Thrives Despite Public Pushback
This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. Last month, the gunshot-detection technology provider ShotSpotter changed its name to SoundThinking. The company wanted to signal its new, more...
My Friend Jordan Neely Was Homeless and in Mental Distress. But He Was Not Expendable.
On May 1, Daniel Penny, a White former Marine, choked Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man in mental distress, to death on a New York City subway car. Witnesses — including a freelance journalist who captured video of the fatal chokehold — said that Neely did not touch anyone, but was yelling that he was tired, hungry, unafraid of returning to jail, and ready to die. Penny, 24, claimed he was protecting himself and other passengers. During the minutes-long chokehold, two other men held down Neely’s arms. Within days, the city’s medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.
The Marshall Project Honored in 16 Categories by the Society for News Design
Nonprofit newsroom covering criminal justice earns top distinctions, ranging from social media design to infographics to data visualization. The Marshall Project is pleased to announce it won medals of excellence across 16 categories at the 44th Annual Creative Competition for the Society for News Design. Forty-seven visual journalists from seven countries served as judges this year, assessing the best visual journalism published in 2022.
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