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As seen in: The New York Times, The Marshall Project

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Lisa Iaboni’s Biography

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Lisa Iaboni is a freelance producer and editor. She was the art director at The Marshall Project, a senior multimedia producer at The New York Times and a media lab fellow at The Economist. She has helped produce and art direct Emmy and Pulitzer prize-winning projects.
Her personal work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, W Magazine and in Scholastic publications.

Lisa Iaboni’s Journalist Portfolio

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'So This Is What a Murderer Looks Like'

'So This Is What a Murderer Looks Like'

Sara Bennett has been a criminal defense lawyer in New York for 30 years. She has represented men and women w…

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What's in a Prison Meal?

What's in a Prison Meal?

Inmates at Georgia's Gordon County jail are fed twice a day, about 10 to 14 hours apart. And while the jail m…

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An Unbelievable Story of Rape

An Unbelievable Story of Rape

No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. She was 18 years old, charged with a gros…

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Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned

Ten years after the darkest day in the city's history, residents reflect on the answer to the question, "What…

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The Radio Show That Reunited Inmates and Families

The Radio Show That Reunited Inmates and Families

It was 11 o'clock on a Friday night in mid-December and Lessie Gardner had already taken a bus 100 miles from…

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Choosing to Stay, Fighting to Rebuild - The New York Times

Choosing to Stay, Fighting to Rebuild - The New York Times

After January's quake in Haiti, most residents of Fort National fled their homes. Some, however, stayed behin…

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Articles

The Radio Show That Reunited Inmates and Families

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By Lisa Iaboni
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It was 11 o’clock on a Friday night in mid-December and Lessie Gardner had already taken a bus 100 miles from her home in Washington, D.C., to the Richmond, Va., Greyhound station. Soon she would board a 15-passenger van for a seven-hour drive to a small town near the Kentucky border. Her ultimate destination was a supermax state prison called Red Onion. It holds 800 inmates, one of whom was her son, Michael. She had not seen him in 15 years.
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‘So This Is What a Murderer Looks Like’

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By Lisa Iaboni
| The Marshall Project Verified
Sara Bennett has been a criminal defense lawyer in New York for 30 years. She has represented men and women who have committed terrible acts; many have spent decades in prison, some have died there. “The longer you’re an attorney the more serious your cases are,” she said, recalling a 16-year-old client who was sentenced to life without parole for murder. “I never forgot him.” “When you send people away for life,’’ she says, “you’re saying there’s no hope.
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What’s in a Prison Meal?

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By Alysia Santo Verified, Lisa Iaboni
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Inmates at the Gordon County Jail in Calhoun, Ga. — according to a preliminary investigation by human rights attorneys last fall — are starving. The two meals a day weren't enough to sustain them, and some reportedly resorted to eating toothpaste and toilet paper. Inmates at the Montgomery County Jail in New York alleged that meager portions led to increased violence among the inmates; one inmate lost 90 pounds in less than six months.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

The New York Times, photo producer

Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

What does it mean to be a journalist?

communicate facts to evoke action and change

Awards

Emmy

2010 - News & Documentary Emmy Award

News & Documentary Emmy Award for New Approaches: Documentaries

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