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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Judge Stops Federal Prisons From Enforcing Trump’s Trans Care Ban, For Now

3 days ago | themarshallproject.org | Beth Schwartzapfel

Federal officials cannot withhold gender-affirming care — for now — from people incarcerated in the Bureau of Prisons, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. Under an executive order that President Trump signed in January, transgender federal prisoners lost the right to receive hormone therapy and other accommodations, such as access to undergarments and gender-specific commissary items.
What Trump’s Pardons for the Chrisleys, Larry Hoover, NBA YoungBoy Mean

6 days 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? Sign up for future newsletters. Over the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has issued a wave of pardons and sentence reductions to dozens of political allies, campaign donors, law enforcement officials, and Republican politicians, among others.
George Floyd, 5 Years Later

1 week ago | themarshallproject.org | Daphne Duret

In the Pulitzer-prize winning biography his sister remembers how, as a toddler, Floyd would jump into his mother’s lap and pepper her cheeks with kisses. He was just as affectionate as a grown man, family and friends said, describing the Black, 6-foot-6 security guard and truck driver as the type to say “I love you” just because he felt like it.
As Trump Abandons Police Reforms, These Local Officials Vow to Press On

1 week ago | themarshallproject.org | Jamiles Lartey |Daphne Duret

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? Sign up for future newsletters. This week, the Department of Justice announced that it would begin pulling back from police reform efforts in eight law enforcement agencies across the country, including Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Louisville, Kentucky. It’s a move that many expected, and one we foreshadowed in last week’s newsletter.
Is Trump’s Gender Care Ban for Trans Prisoners Unconstitutional?

2 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | Beth Schwartzapfel

A federal judge heard arguments Thursday over whether the government can withhold gender-affirming care from people incarcerated by the Bureau of Prisons while a lawsuit against the Trump administration proceeds. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who sits in Washington, D.C., must consider whether to temporarily stop the prison system from implementing an executive order from President Donald Trump.
Why Some Jail Detainees Can Go Years Without Seeing the Sun

2 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | ivy scott |Brittany Hailer |Daja Henry

Jails are notorious for inhumane conditions. Detainees often complain of violence, inedible food, limited programming and subpar healthcare. Lack of sunlight may be an unexpected addition to the list. But sunlight deprivation causes a myriad of serious issues, including high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and an increased risk of diabetes, as well as a host of mental health problems such as depression and sleep disorders.
A Trump Administration Cut Will Leave Some Immigrants Without a Lawyer

2 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | Christie Thompson

In April, the Trump administration cut funding for a program that provided legal aid to immigrants with serious mental health conditions who were detained and facing deportation. The move has left attorneys scrambling to keep serving clients for whom they say legal representation can be a matter of life or death. For one young man, the prospect of navigating immigration court without an attorney while dealing with a mental health crisis felt impossible.
Five Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Police Reforms Are Rolled Back

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? Sign up for future newsletters. In Minnesota, the bail fund that gained national prominence during the George Floyd protests is stepping back from its once core mission of paying bail.
Why Extreme Heat in These Missouri Prisons Is Worse in Solitary Confinement

3 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | ivy scott

Last summer, Kenneth Barrett recalls spending 46 days — roughly half the summer — in solitary confinement at Algoa Correctional Center, a minimum security prison in Jefferson City, Missouri. In segregation, he was confined to a cell roughly the size of a parking spot for 23 hours a day. Barrett said he had brown tap water to drink, chilled only by the occasional delivery of ice. There were no electrical outlets to plug in a fan, he said.
Civil Rights Probe of 1970 Jackson State, Mississippi, Killings At Risk?

3 weeks ago | themarshallproject.org | Daja Henry

Dale Gibbs awoke to banging on the door of her parents’ home in Ripley, Mississippi, in the early hours of May 15, 1970, just three days before her 19th birthday. Her husband, Phillip, a 21-year-old senior at Jackson State College, was expected to return that night after making the nearly four-hour drive from campus. But he wasn’t banging on the door. It was Phillip’s sister, Nerene, and a neighbor. Nerene was screaming.