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The Marshall Project is a nonprofit nonpartisan online journalism organization focusing on issues related to criminal justice in the United States, led by former hedge fund manager Neil Barsky and former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller. Source
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Search ArticlesWomen Learned Their Jail Strip-Searches Were Recorded. Their Outrage Changed the Law.
By Candice Norwood The 19th Suzanne Garcia looked down and away from the officer’s gaze as she went through the motions of a routine jail intake inspection: Remove all clothing, including underwear. Raise both arms. Lift each breast. Run fingers through hair. Show hands and feet. Turn 180 degrees. Bend over and squat. Separate butt cheeks. Cough.
The Girls Who Survived
Cinematography by Bethany Mollenkof and Emily Rhyne Video editing by Spencer Bakalar and Emily Rhyne It was hard not to feel hopeless. Locked away from everyone and everything they knew, they spent their teenage years inside youth residential treatment centers, face to face with violence. In the chaos, the children found strength in the bonds they formed as they cared for one another.
Trump’s ICE Has Detained More People Than the Population of Atlanta
More than 45,000 people were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month, the highest number since Donald Trump retook office, according to data the Deportation Data Project released Monday. In total, since Trump’s inauguration last year, ICE has detained over 610,000 people — more than the population of Atlanta, Baltimore, Milwaukee or the entire state of Wyoming.
The Youth ‘Treatment’ Centers Kids Risk Their Lives to Escape
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.
Nowhere Else to Go: One Man’s Perilous Journey in Jail to Understand Charges Against Him
LIBERTY, Mo. — Fresh out of jail in New York, Carl Henry Louis jumped on a bus, yearning to see a world beyond the Big Apple and his past. During his journey, he lived on the streets, taking odd jobs, sometimes getting into trouble, even serving time behind bars again. But he always found his way back on the road. Then he threatened a cashier and swiped a handful of cigarette lighters in Kansas City in 2021.
Two 17-Year-Olds in Custody Wrote a Love Song in an Arts Program. One Didn’t Survive.
This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by incarcerated artists. Sign up now to get a new song each Sunday afternoon until September: Two 17-Year-Olds in Custody Wrote a Love Song in an Arts Program. One Didn’t Survive.
How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children
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? Sign up for future newsletters. The Trump administration has characterized immigration enforcement as a public safety push to deport "the worst of the worst.” Yet, in recent months it has taken several actions that specifically target immigrant children. The federal government expanded monitoring and tracking of unaccompanied minors.
The Marshall Project Wins NABJ Salute to Excellence Award
The National Association of Black Journalists is honoring The Marshall Project with an NABJ Salute to Excellence Award. The award is for Digital Media - Online Project: News for The Marshall Project’s coverage of homicides in Mississippi prisons. The yearlong joint investigation, with TMP staff reporters Daja E.
News Inside Issue 23: Rap Lyrics, ICE and Menopause in Prison
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.
How to Prepare for a Prison Visit
Photographed against the sky above Weld County Sheriff-North Jail Complex in Greeley, Colorado. Photographed against the sky above Weld County Sheriff-North Jail Complex in Greeley, Colorado. “Sending Kites” is a monthly column from The Marshall Project that explores challenges faced by people with incarcerated loved ones and by people in jails and prisons. Check our previous columns. Last-minute cancellations. Long, expensive drives to rural areas.