All the criminal justice news from around the country, or at least what’s worth reading, curated by the indefatigable Andrew Cohen who just published his 2000th edition: mailchi.mp/themarshallpro…

People locked up in Texas prisons can read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but not “On Lynchings” by pioneering Black journalist Ida B. Wells. Go figure. See The Marshall Project database of books banned in prisons, state by state: themarshallproject.org/2022/12/21/pri…

What’s life really like behind bars? Hear from the people who have been there. 🎥 Inside Story: a first-of-its-kind news show made by formerly incarcerated people. Premiering Thursday with VICE News.

“You are sending them out into the world with more problems than they came in,” our reporter Beth Schwartzapfel says. Our premiere of Inside Story with VICE News looks at juvenile justice in Louisiana. Watch the full episode: trib.al/coP5bOb

ASME Awards 2023: The Marshall Project wins General Excellence, Special Interest category. Accepting the Ellie is editor in chief Susan Chira. Congratulations The Marshall Project team! #ASMEawards

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The word fell out of favor in media for good reason, writes Carroll Bogert, president of the The Marshall Project. wapo.st/4cffGIg

Are you a criminal justice reporter, or a storyteller interested in criminal justice issues? @marshallproj just launched Investigate This! with toolkits to help local journalists and others with their original reporting. Check it out: themarshallproject.org/investigate-th…

Let me show you a smart practice. "Investigate This" from the Marshall Project gives other newsrooms the tools they need to do their own versions of investigations the Marshall Project succeeded with. themarshallproject.org/investigate-th… A "reporting recipe" is what ProPublica calls it.

I spent the last year reporting on the most interesting effort in a generation to transform American prisons — by giving prisoners more say over their environments. The story begins with a deadly riot in a prison named for Robert E. Lee. 🧵 themarshallproject.org/2024/09/26/sou…

Would you be offended to know that my boyfriend and I use #rihlive to get us back to sleep in the middle of the night? We learn things along the way!

Classic Tom Robbins: when the media were criticizing the Manhattan DA for being soft on rich people, Tom wrote about how hard he was on the poor themarshallproject.org/2018/04/29/the… An honor to have worked with him The Marshall Project