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Closing Argument
What These Decisions Tell Us About Kamala Harris’ Approach to Criminal Justice
Life Inside
Love Beyond Bars: Raymond and Cassandra
Analysis
Sending Unarmed Responders Instead of Police: What We’ve Learned
Analysis
July 25
The Problem With Labeling Trump a ‘Felon’
Here’s why language used to describe any person convicted of crimes matters, and affects more than the former president.
By
Carroll Bogert
The Frame
July 25
Photos: Three Years of a Family’s Grief and Healing After a Fatal Police Shooting
Photographer Michael Indriolo documents an East Cleveland family’s search for peace after the 2021 police shooting of their 19-year-old brother.
Photographs and text by
Michael Indriolo
The Record
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Trump assassination attempt (July 2024)
News and Awards
July 25
The Marshall Project Launches Investigate This!
Our toolkits will offer data, storytelling and engagement resources to empower more criminal justice reporting in local communities
By
The Marshall Project
Investigate This
July 25
How to Investigate COVID’s Deadly Toll in Your State Prisons
Our toolkit helps you report on deadly systemic failures and analyze the pandemic as a case study of how facilities can prepare for the next crisis.
By
The Marshall Project
Investigate This
July 25
Resources to Power Your Criminal Justice Reporting
We’ve compiled guidance on key issues for anyone covering the legal system — styles and standards to FOIA requests
By
The Marshall Project
Investigate This
July 25
How to Investigate the Trend of Declining Prison Staff and Deteriorating Conditions Behind Bars
Our toolkit helps you report on how this employment crisis impacts safety and local budgets in your state.
By
The Marshall Project
Opening Statement
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El Paso County asks state to cover cost of border arrests
Newsom orders California agencies to remove homeless encampments
John Hinckley Jr. and the Madness of American Political Violence
Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, Texas
Assessing Cause of Trump Wound, F.B.I. Examines Bullet Fragments From Rally
A Federal Law Could Block Reforms to Address Failings in Angola’s Medical System — ProPublica
Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests
Texas inmates’ calls will get cheaper under new rule
Mayor Adams Dodges a City Council Threat by Making One of His Own
United States v. Nixon at Fifty: Why Judge Cannon Is Wrong About the Attorney General’s Authority to Select a Special Counsel
American Descent
What to do about a father with guns and dementia?
‘True Crime’ Shows Exploit and Lie About Incarcerated Women
Should We Abolish Prisons?
‘Torturous’: Judge places solitary confinement and mental health care at David Wade prison under federal oversight
Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2024 Update
Kamala Harris’s Record on Guns
Bureau Of Prisons Director Testifies At House Judiciary Committee
Maryland Moves to Process a Nearly 50-Year-Old Backlog of Rape Kits — ProPublica
Jackson
July 24
Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban
This guide offers details about the state’s disenfranchisement laws and how you may still be able to vote from jail, even with a conviction.
By
Caleb Bedillion
News
July 21
5 Things to Know About Kamala Harris’ Criminal Justice Record
Here’s where Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, stands on important criminal justice issues.
By
Jamiles Lartey
and
Lakeidra Chavis
Closing Argument
July 20
How Project 2025 Plans for Trump to Have Unprecedented Power Over the Justice Department
The policy plan for a second Trump term would turn the department against progressive local prosecutors.
By
Jamiles Lartey
Life Inside
July 19
Love Beyond Bars: Jules and Samantha
Jules and Samantha Werkheiser fought their wrongful convictions for over a decade. Here’s their journey of survival — and motherhood — in pictures.
Photographs by
Camille Farrah Lenain
As-told-to by
Carla Canning