The Problem With Labeling Trump a ‘Felon’ - The Marshall Project
Jul 25, 2024 — Since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, gleeful headlines have sprouted across the media, with a new descriptor for the former president: “felon.”. The New York Times editorial board condemned him under the pithy banner: “Donald Trump, Felon.”. The Washington Post ran an analysis by senior political reporter Aaron Blake headlined: “Trump is a felon.
10 Stories That Defined The Marshall Project’s First 10 Years
Nov 15, 2024 — T he Marshall Project was born 10 years ago out of frustration and hope. Frustration that injustices and abuses in the criminal justice system were so rarely covered or publicly understood. And hope because, in a time of sustained low crime rates and increasing concern about the social and financial costs of mass incarceration, there appeared a …
The True, Massive Cost of Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans
Oct 26, 2024 — 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? Subscribe to future newsletters. At a campaign rally in the border state of Arizona on Thursday, Donald Trump roused the crowd with a promise to ...
Homeless People Have Property Rights Too | The Marshall Project
Sep 28, 2024 — Those findings, however, are in stark contrast with the results of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation, released in June, which found Phoenix police continued to destroy unhoused people’s property without notice or the chance for them to reclaim it — in violation of their constitutional rights.. Other lawsuits on behalf of unhoused people are also …
What Are the Results of Our 2024 Election Survey in Prisons and …
Oct 18, 2024 — Read this first. Ahead of the 2024 election, The Marshall Project surveyed incarcerated people to shed light on their political leanings. We heard from more than 54,000 people in 785 prisons and jails in 45 states and the District of Columbia.
Sending Unarmed Responders Instead of Police: What We’ve …
Jul 25, 2024 — In the four years since George Floyd’s murder, many sweeping attempts to reform policing have faltered.But one proposal that has taken hold across the country, and continues to spread, is launching alternative first response units that send unarmed civilians, instead of armed officers, to some emergencies.
New Data Shows Deadly Cost of Officials ... - The Marshall Project
Apr 18, 2024 — Now, a new national study out of one of these collaborations between the University of California, Irvine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, people inside prisons died almost three and a half times more frequently than the free population.. Over 6,000 incarcerated people died in the first year of the pandemic, …
New Data Shows How Dire the Prison Staffing Shortage Really Is
Jan 10, 2024 — Meanwhile, state prison populations are rising.The number of people behind bars steadily declined starting in 2013 and then drastically dropped during the pandemic, when states released people to ease dangerous COVID-19 conditions, and court systems slowed.But by 2022, the number of people held in state prisons started to bounce back to over 1 million people.
Some of Our Best Work of 2023 - The Marshall Project
Dec 20, 2023 — A s the debate on reproductive rights swirled in 2023, and U.S. prison conditions continued to be criticized, The Marshall Project used newfound data and in-depth story-telling to illuminate those and other vital criminal justice issues.. We examined the spate of prosecutions of pregnant women in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina and published first …
The Marshall Project: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, 2023
Jan 11, 2024 — Our seventh annual diversity report. Read past years' reports: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017. After several years of what appeared to be progress in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts around the nation, many of these initiatives have come under fire, particularly after the Supreme Court ruling dismantling affirmative action. At The Marshall Project, we …