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Lawrence Bartley

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As seen in: The Marshall Project, Aol, Slate, Flipboard, Curbed, Scripps News, The Lebanon Democrat
Director of News Inside--a print publication being read in prisons and jails across the U.S.

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The Youth ‘Treatment’ Centers Kids Risk Their Lives to Escape

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By Lawrence Bartley Verified, Donald Washington
| The Marshall Project Verified
Across the U.S., thousands of kids live locked inside residential treatment centers. They vary in age, but can be as young as 5 years old. They arrive through foster care, court orders, or parents pushed to the brink who were promised their children would finally get help. Instead, many get shipped hundreds of miles across state lines, away from everyone they know.
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News Inside Issue 23: Rap Lyrics, ICE and Menopause in Prison

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By Lawrence Bartley Verified
| The Marshall Project Verified
A magazine called News Inside set against a grainy gray backdrop. Light refracted through prison bars shines onto the magazine. A magazine called News Inside set against a grainy gray backdrop. Light refracted through prison bars shines onto the magazine. This month marks the fifth anniversary of our people-powered advice column “Reader to Reader,” a regular feature in News Inside and the brainchild of my former colleague, Ariel Goodman.
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What if Prison Was Not Designed to Punish?

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By Lawrence Bartley Verified, Donald Washington
| The Marshall Project Verified
Nearly 2 million people are locked up in the United States within a system primarily designed around punishment. In this episode of “Inside Story,” host Lawrence Bartley — who spent 27 years incarcerated in the U.S. system — travels to Hamelin, Germany, to witness a radically different approach to justice.
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