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The Marshall Project Announces the Addition of Two New Editors
Paul D’Ambrosio will join as a senior editor, and Jovelle Tamayo will join as a multimedia editor to enhance visual storytelling. The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer-winning nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice, has just announced the hiring of two new editors: Paul D’Ambrosio as a senior editor, and Jovelle Tamayo as multimedia editor.
How the Death Penalty Is Returning to Presidential Politics
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. A few months ago, unnamed sources told Rolling Stone that former President Donald Trump was musing about ordering group executions,...
‘Mass Supervision’: Out of Prison, But Not the System
Part Five of the “Violation” podcast follows Jacob Wideman on home arrest and examines conditions faced by millions on parole or probation in the U.S. In 2016, after 30 years behind bars and seven hearings in front of the Arizona parole board, Jacob Wideman was released from prison.
How the Juvenile System Forces Minors Into Unsafe Institutions
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. A 2020 reform law was supposed to remake the way the California juvenile justice system looks, feels, and even smells....
Some Are Jailed in Mississippi for Months Without a Lawyer. A Court Just Barred That.
The Mississippi Supreme Court moved to end the “dead zone” before indictment in a notoriously dysfunctional public defender system. Poor defendants in Mississippi are routinely jailed for months, and sometimes even years, without being appointed an attorney due to the state’s notoriously dysfunctional public defender system. The Mississippi Supreme Court now says this practice must end.
‘Heart Tests’: Finding Life (and Love) Behind Bars
Part Four of the “Violation” podcast follows Jacob Wideman as he confronts his mental health, navigates romance, and faces a skeptical parole board. How do you build a meaningful life in prison, knowing you might never be free? What if whether you might one day be free hinges on your ability to build a meaningful life in prison? In Part Four of the “Violation” podcast, we follow Jacob Wideman’s decades-long journey through the Arizona prison system and hear how he prepared to tell his life story to the parole board.
Dave Mann Joins The Marshall Project as Senior Editor
Mann will expand the nonprofit newsroom’s ability to produce its signature investigative storytelling on courts, cops and prisons. The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer-winning nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice, has just announced the hiring of Dave Mann as a Senior Editor. Mann joins The Marshall Project from APM Reports in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he served as a senior editor and led teams of reporters on investigative projects, digital storytelling and audio reporting for American Public Media’s investigative reporting unit. He will join The Marshall Project on April 10.
What Happens When Your Social Media Photos End Up in the Hands of Police
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. Facial recognition software is increasingly ubiquitous in modern life, and odds are good that you have at least one social...
What I Learned From a Year of ‘Life Inside’
Writing has always felt like the only way for me to make sense of things. Since first grade, I have been a journal-keeper, a note-taker and a list-maker. So it was one of those full-circle moments when I became The Marshall Project’s 2022 Tow Audience Engagement Fellow, with a focus on “Life Inside.” As I fielded questions from potential contributors, tracked and edited their submissions, and co-developed guidelines, I learned the unique challenges of publishing personal essays and “as-told-to” pieces about the criminal justice system.
‘A Trap for the Unwary’: The Power and Paradox of Parole Boards
Part Three of the “Violation” podcast examines America’s opaque parole system and how Jacob Wideman prepared to argue for his release. Imagine the worst day of your life, when you did the one thing you are most ashamed of. Now imagine having to convince a panel of strangers — who suspect you might be lying — how sorry you are. After years of preparing for this moment, you get only minutes to make your case. And the stakes couldn’t be higher: The rest of your life depends on whether or not the strangers believe you.
Most New Yorkers Don’t Get the Trump Treatment at Arraignment
The arrest and arraignment of former President Donald J. Trump may have been an unprecedented moment in American history, with seismic implications for the political process. But as a legal process, it was more routine: On Tuesday, he became just another one of the roughly 31,000 people arraigned for felonies in dreary courtrooms across New York State each year.
How Criminal Records Hold Back Millions of People
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 weekend a gust of wind sent a large patio umbrella crashing onto the roof of Bridgette Simpson’s car outside...
The Marshall Project Wins Prestigious National Magazine Award From American Society of Magazine Editors
Award-winning newsroom won two categories at the 58th annual National Magazine Awards. The Marshall Project has won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Special Interest, at the 2023 National Magazine Awards. This is the second time The Marshall Project has received this prestigious award from the American Society of Magazine Editors. In 2017, the organization was recognized for general excellence in the Literature, Science, and Politics category. — This year, The Marshall Project received the award for its signature investigative reporting that spanned all corners of the U.S. criminal justice system, including coverage on topics such as theprosecutions of pregnant women with addictions and a violent prison unit in Illinois, which resulted in a federal investigation and the closing of the unit.
‘Bad Seed’: Two Generations, Two Terrible Crimes
Part Two of the “Violation” podcast explores whether violence runs in families and what should happen to kids who commit murder. Not long after Jacob Wideman murdered his summer camp roommate, Eric Kane, in 1986 — seemingly with no motive — a question emerged in the breathless news coverage of the tragedy: Was Jake a “bad seed”?
Y’all Want It, We Got It
Issue 13 of News Inside fills reader requests and gives them something new to think about. This February marked the fourth anniversary of News Inside. From the beginning, we’ve provided articles that connect with our audience, and Issue 13 brings more of the same. “Giving Incarcerated People What They Want — Better News Access” reflects our readers’ desire for information. We are providing this for free on tablets, which typically cost money to use. Sticking with the wants, we share an account of a state's strategy to enhance the diet of people incarcerated in its prisons (“‘Pig Slop’ No More? Texas Prisons Detail Plan to Improve Food”).
New FBI Data Shows More Hate Crimes. These Groups Saw The Sharpest Rise.
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. Hate crimes reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies rose from more than 8,000 in 2020 to nearly 11,000...
What Irvo Otieno’s Killing Tells Us about Mental Healthcare in the U.S.
The suffocation of Irvo Otieno, recorded on video, recalled the deaths of other Black men who perished under the weight of law enforcement: Daniel Prude, Eric Garner, George Floyd. However, Otieno died not on the street but inside a Virginia state psychiatric hospital — a place where he was meant to be cared for, not punished, by the state.
How Chicago Got Its Gun Laws
Guns have a long, winding history in America. A story by The Marshall Project published this week revealed that when it comes to enforcing gun laws, Black men pay the price — especially in Chicago. The legal system in Illinois that has led to the incarceration of thousands is...
What Are the ‘Exit Ramps’ From Incarceration in Cuyahoga County?
A reader submitted a question to Testify, our ongoing investigation into Cuyahoga County’s criminal courts. The reader wanted to know whether a particular judge had “ever used the Diversion Program for any defendant in her courtroom?”. The question seemed straightforward at first. But when we started looking for...
Violence on the Inside, Mentorship From the Outside
Our season finale takes a closer look at Thomson penitentiary, a prison that became one of the most violent and dangerous in the federal system. Inside Story host Lawrence Bartley also talks with actor, activist and entrepreneur La La Anthony to discuss her mentorship program in New York City’s Rikers Island and how she manages her emotional health while working with incarcerated people.
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