The Marshall Project

The Marshall Project is a non-profit and nonpartisan digital journalism group dedicated to topics concerning the criminal justice system in the United States. It is headed by Neil Barsky, a former hedge fund manager, along with Bill Keller, who previously served as the executive editor of The New York Times.

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Indicted Mississippi DA flouts campaign finance disclosure laws

2 days ago | themarshallproject.org | Caleb Bedillion

Jody Owens, the district attorney in Mississippi’s capital city who faces trial on federal corruption charges, has been fined for failing to disclose his most recent campaign fundraising and spending. But the state’s weak and much-criticized campaign finance enforcement system may spare him from the strongest sanctions — the loss of his government salary.
The First-Ever Federal Report on Prison Pregnancies is Missing Crucial Details

4 days ago | themarshallproject.org | Nicole Lewis

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. When the Bureau of Justice Statistics released the first-ever national look at reproductive issues in state and federal prisons in April, it answered some long-standing questions, while raising a few more, about pregnancy and maternal care behind bars.
How Trump Is Hiding Information on the Justice System and Crime Data

1 week ago | themarshallproject.org | Jill Castellano

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. The Trump administration is quickly trying to reshape America’s criminal justice system. Last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi cancelled hundreds of Department of Justice grants centered on crime prevention to shift its focus toward illegal drug enforcement and the eradication of DEI policies.
What Will Trump’s Executive Order on Policing Actually Do?

2 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | Daphne Duret

Law enforcement leaders from across the country were divided Tuesday in their assessment of President Donald Trump’s new executive order promising free private legal protection for police officers accused of wrongdoing on the job, along with more training, access to military equipment and other benefits.
Where Trump’s Immigration Detention Expansion Sees Conservative Pushback

2 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | Jamiles Lartey

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. Leavenworth, Kansas, is a prison town. The conservative city and the surrounding county of about 80,000 is home to a constellation of federal, state and military correctional facilities, including Leavenworth U.S. Penitentiary, which once housed infamous gangsters like Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly.
Why California, Pennsylvania Are Modeling Some Prisons On Scandinavia

3 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | Jamiles Lartey

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. When most people picture U.S. prisons, they don’t usually imagine green plants, vibrant murals, wooden furniture, cuddly dogs or fish tanks. In most facilities, they’d be right.
Georgia’s Bipartisan Push To Reform Sentences For Abuse Survivors

1 month ago | themarshallproject.org | Shannon Heffernan

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. Latoya Dickens says she’s been robbed of her life twice. The first time, it was taken by a man who she said violently abused and controlled her for over a decade, starting when she was a teenager. The second time, she says, the state of Georgia took it — when they put her in prison for killing him in self-defense.
Trump Targeting International Students Over Pro-Palestinian Protests: Is It Legal?

1 month ago | themarshallproject.org | Jamiles Lartey

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. In a significant escalation of its crackdown on campus activism, the Trump administration claims to have revoked more than 300 student visas, primarily targeting international students involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
Missouri Exoneration Highlights State’s Opposition to Innocence Claims

1 month ago | themarshallproject.org | Katie Moore |HG Biggs |Emily Curiel

The first thing Sandra “Sandy” Hemme did after walking out of prison in July 2024 — after spending 43 years behind bars — was visit her father. He was in the hospital battling kidney failure. Ten days later, he was gone. Hemme, now 65, had been held for a crime she said she didn’t commit — the 1980 murder of a woman in St. Joseph, about an hour north of Kansas City. In June 2024, a judge agreed. By then, she had lost decades with her parents, siblings and a young child.
These States Have Investigated Miscarriages and Stillbirths as Crimes

1 month ago | themarshallproject.org | Cary Aspinwall

In late March, police in southern Georgia arrested a 24-year-old woman who had a miscarriage after a witness reported seeing her place the fetal remains in a dumpster. The coroner in Tift County determined it was a 19-week fetus from a naturally occurring miscarriage, but some legal experts consider the arrest a bellwether for the criminal suspicion that surrounds pregnancy loss in many states in post-Roe America.