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How Gun Policy Is Scrambling to Keep Up With Gun Culture
When was the last time you saw a cigarette advertisement? — Odds are it’s been a while — tobacco ads on television, radio, billboards, transit and event sponsorships have all been banned by federal law for decades. It’s an approach that some gun control groups and lawmakers are now seeking to deploy in response tothe nation’s mass shooting crisis.
Louis Fields Joins The Marshall Project - Cleveland Team
The newsroom adds an Outreach Manager. The Marshall Project has hired Louis Fields as its Cleveland Outreach Manager. In this new role, Fields will be an essential part of the organization’s Cleveland operation, working closely with our engagement reporting team to increase distribution of the organization’s journalism in Ohio’s prisons and jails, and to reach the Greater Cleveland community.
How Conservatives Are Trying to Shut Down the Progressive Prosecutor Movement
This is The Marshall Project’s new Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue from reporter Jamiles Lartey. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. Prosecutors have a tremendous amount of discretion around the criminal charges they do and —...
Dear Ira: I Want You to Know You Did Not Die in Vain
Dear Ira, — I was reluctant to write this letter because I am probably the last person you want to hear from. Yet I still feel compelled to say something. Part of what motivates me to write to you is the relationship I’ve developed with your mother. Ms. Tina is a prime example of what love consists of, and I am so grateful to know her. She’s on my phone list, and I make it my business to call her once a month. I just wish our connection hadn’t come at such a high price.
See If Police in Your State Reported Crime Data to the FBI
There are growing gaps in U.S. crime stats. Use our tables to check on your state and local agencies. Download the crime participation data. Nearly 40% of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI's national database in 2021 after the transition to a new collection system. The transition creates huge gaps in national crime stats sure to be exploited by politicians in this election year.
Confronting America’s ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Juvenile Detention Crisis
This is The Marshall Project’s new Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue from reporter Jamiles Lartey. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. In Texas, children and teens in the juvenile justice system are routinely locked in cells...
How Policing Has — and Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd
This is The Marshall Project’s new Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue from reporter Jamiles Lartey. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. A Black man in Massachusetts alleges that police tackled him in a case of mistaken...
Prison Money Diaries: What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars
People in prison get “three hots and a cot,” right? So, what do they need money for? A lot, it turns out. — Prisons typically provide the bare minimum when it comes tofood, clothes, shoes and hygiene supplies. Some states provide items such as toothpaste, soap and limited amounts of letter-writing supplies only to the “indigent,” or those who have little to no money. Other goods that many would consider necessities — deodorant, shampoo, sneakers, thermal clothes for winter — are often only available to people who can afford them.
She Tried to ‘Humanize’ Prisons in Oregon. Can She Fix the Federal System?
When the embattled head of the federal Bureau of Prisons stepped down earlier this year, many hoped his replacement would be someone able to overhaul the scandal-plagued federal system. The final pick — Oregon prison director Colette Peters — seemed to fit the bill. During her 10 years at the...
Raghuram Vadarevu Joins The Marshall Project as Senior Editor, Storytelling
The new role will oversee multimedia storytelling to engage new audiences and reach more people affected by the criminal justice system. The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit that covers the U.S. criminal justice system, is excited to announce the hire of its first-ever Senior Editor, Storytelling. Raghuram Vadarevu will...
“It’s Crushing”: The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated
This is The Marshall Project’s new Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue from reporter Jamiles Lartey. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. If there’s one story of wrongful conviction that most people know, it’s that of the...
When People Fear Me Based on My Jail Tats and Scars, They Miss the Real Me
It was June at Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California, and the heat was without mercy. The chains around my ankles dragged along the gravel parking lot, and the shackles cut into my Achilles tendons, leaving me no option but to walk sideways like a crab. The two sheriff’s deputies who were assigned to transport me to an off-site medical appointment seemed annoyed that I was struggling to keep up with them. But they didn’t talk to me. Like robots with human faces, they were silent. It was my first time away from the maximum security jail in over two years. These trips used to take place about once a year, but they had ceased during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Banned Behind Bars
Issue 11 of News Inside delves into topics that would normally get a publication barred from prisons and jails. Tough-as-nails screeners act as gatekeepers for the reading materials people try to bring into prisons and jails. The quickest way to get your content banned is to make it about drugs, violence or sex. And yet, Issue 11 of News Inside features articles about these controversial topics.
How Criminalizing Abortion Is Causing a “Bewildering Patchwork” of Enforcement
This is The Marshall Project’s new Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue from reporter Jamiles Lartey. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters here. There is no such thing as the criminal justice system in the U.S. There are...
Decades After Leaving Foster Care, She Learned She Was Owed Benefits. Where Did The Money Go?
It’s been almost 45 years since Kathy Stolz-Silvis was in foster care in Pennsylvania. Stolz-Silvis was nine when her father died, making her and her siblings eligible for Social Security survivor benefits. But she didn’t become aware of those benefits until decades later — after reading an investigation published by The Marshall Project and NPR.
The Marshall Project Receives Prestigious Award From Missouri School of Journalism
Award-winning newsroom honored for its distinguished service and superior achievements in journalism. The Marshall Project has earned the 2022 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, in recognition of its superior achievement in journalism. Medalists are selected by the Missouri School of Journalism faculty, which has awarded the Missouri...
The Marshall Project and Ohio Local News Initiative Join Forces to Hire Local Journalist Rachel Dissell
Dissell will contribute to the reporting and community engagement efforts of the Cleveland newsroom. The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer-winning nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice issues, and The Ohio Local News Initiative, a new nonprofit news organization, announced today they are joining forces in Cleveland and hiring intrepid local journalist Rachel Dissell. Dissell’s role as the special projects and community editor at The Ohio Local News Initiative (OLNI) will be co-funded by The Marshall Project. Dissell will contribute to the reporting and community engagement efforts of both newsrooms.
My Prison Gets So Hot, the Floors Sweat
After four long years at a supermax facility in Baraga County, Michigan, I am now housed at the Michigan Reformatory or RMI, a less restrictive multi-level prison in Ionia County. My unit, one of nine “close security” cellblocks at RMI, consists of 96 shabby cells lying end to end. When...
Rachel Kincaid Joins The Marshall Project
The newsroom adds a Newsletter Manager. The Marshall Project has hired Rachel Kincaid to be Newsletter Manager. In this new role, Kincaid will help grow and strengthen the organization’s efforts to connect directly with readers through newsletters. “Rachel has such a range of skills — from editing to management...
We Spent a Year Following a Troubled Police Force. Listen to What We Learned About ‘Reform.’
Can a police department change from within? Can it win community trust without dealing with its troubled past? Can it diversify its ranks to reflect the demographic makeup of its city? NPR's Embedded podcast and The Marshall Project spent a year investigating Yonkers, which has a long and ugly history of bad policing just north of New York City. The Justice Department has demanded an overhaul of the police department and has been monitoring it for more than a decade. In the first episode of our four-part series, we spend time with the Yonkers police commissioner, John Mueller, who has committed to do what the feds want, and more. A colorful and charismatic “cop’s cop,” he has promised to “reform” policing in Yonkers. In fact, he wants to turn his officers into guardians of the community, accountable to its citizens. How is that working out for him — and the city?
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