The Marshall Project
WEBThe Marshall Project Wins Two Awards From The Institute for Nonprofit News Awards. Stories on fetal personhood and abusive prison guards won in the Explanatory Reporting and Investigative categories. By The Marshall Project. Feature September 25.
About Us - The Marshall Project
WEBBy Neil Barsky, 11.15.2014. The seeds of The Marshall Project were planted several years ago, after I read two books. The first, the now-famous “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, argues that mass incarceration — which dates roughly from President Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs in the 1980s to the present — represents the third phase of African American oppression in the United ...
Kamala Harris’ Complex Record as Prosecutor: What to Know | The ...
WEBJul 27, 2024 · Innocence Cases. In 2008, Jamal Trulove was arrested in San Francisco and prosecuted by Harris’ office for the murder of his friend Seu Kuka. An appellate court later found that police officers had framed Trulove, and he was released after six years in prison. The city agreed to pay him a $13 million settlement.
U.S. Mass Shootings On Rise No Matter How You Define Them
WEBJul 6, 2022 · The group counted 2,403 mass shootings from 2017 to 2021, with 2,495 dead and 10,225 injured. The group’s data reveals a steep rise in recent years: 692 mass shootings in 2021, up 66% from 2019’s total of 417. The group tallied 318 mass shootings as of 3 p.m. on July 5. That puts 2022 on track to …
I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
WEBNov 1, 2018 · The next day, we were arrested and charged with capital murder, which carried two possible sentences: death, or life without the possibility of parole. We got life. I would be incarcerated forever. It was 1985, and I was just 17 years old. Once I got to prison, I was dealing with extreme guilt over my aunt’s death, and fear, because I was ...
My Life in the Supermax - The Marshall Project
WEBJan 8, 2016 · This article was published in collaboration with Vice.. Not many people ever make it out of the ADX. Officially called the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence — and colloquially known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” — the ADX is the highest-security federal prison in …
What Can Death Row Prisoners Request Before They Die?
WEBSep 7, 2021 · The vast majority of American executions over the last half-century have been carried out through lethal injection, but several states have directed death row prisoners to pick how they will die. The exact laws vary, but in a handful of states, including Florida, Tennessee and Utah, prisoners have opted for electrocution or the firing squad.
Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Parole
WEBJul 10, 2015 · 8. Parole boards can dictate your life on the outside, too. Parole boards don't just decide who to send home. They also decide what the conditions of people's parole will be, and what the consequences are if they violate parole. In some states, boards can even decide whom to consider for parole and when. 9.
Life Without Parole Is Replacing the Death Penalty — But the Legal ...
WEBMay 22, 2021 · Life-without-parole sentences are steadily replacing the death penalty across the United States. Almost 56,000 people nationwide are now serving sentences that will keep them locked up until they die, an increase of 66% since 2003, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that advocates for shorter prison terms. By comparison, only 2,500 people nationally are on death row according to ...
How Policing Has — and Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd
WEBAug 6, 2022 · More than two years after millions of Americans took to the streets following the murder of George Floyd, familiar stories about police violence persist. By the numbers, 2021 was the deadliest for police shootings since The Washington Post began tracking them in 2015. The database Mapping Police Violence found similar results.