themarshallproject.orgadded August 2026
The Marshall Projectby Tammy Galarza23d ago
“Sending Kites” is a monthly column from The Marshall Project that explores challenges faced by people with incarcerated loved ones and by people in jails and prisons. Check our previous columns.
The Marshall Projectby Beth Schwartzapfel26d ago
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.
The Marshall Projectby Phillip Luna27d ago
On July 25, I attended a memorial service for my friend Jacob Harper-Leonard. He had died almost four months earlier.
The Marshall Projectby Lauren Villagran28d ago
After federal immigration agents ended their aggressive enforcement blitzes in the streets of Minneapolis and Chicago, President Donald Trump promised mass deportations with “a little bit of a...
The Marshall Projectby Jill Castellano28d ago
In 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the state’s death penalty system a failure and issued an executive order halting executions.
The Marshall Projectby Jesse Bogan8 Sept 2026
MARSHALL, Mo. – Amid the loud din of workers packaging beef and pork last week at a Cargill meat processing plant, Alma Sandoval retreated from the production lines she supervised and went into the...
The Marshall Projectby Christie Thompson8 Sept 2026
In January, as the Trump administration launched an immigration crackdown in Maine, Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was intercepted on his way to work.
The Marshall Projectby Maurice Chammah6 Sept 2026
He Wrote a Song Called ‘Freedom.’ Now He’s Free. Listen if you like: Sly and the Family Stone, Grover Washington Jr., Gil Scott-Heron A few years ago, a group of men at a prison in Pennsylvania...
The Marshall Projectby Wilbert L. Cooper5 Sept 2026
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.
The Marshall Projectby Brittany Hailer1 Sept 2026
The chief executive of one of Ohio’s largest residential treatment centers for youth is accused of driving nearly three hours to meet someone for sex whom he believed was a 14-year-old girl.
The Marshall Projectby Daja E. Henry30 Aug 2026
This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by incarcerated artists. Sign up now to get a new song each Sunday afternoon until September.
The Marshall Projectby Jamiles Lartey29 Aug 2026
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.
The Marshall Projectby Daja E. Henry28 Aug 2026
CLEVELAND, Miss. — Just 30 minutes down the road from the Mississippi prison where they are serving time, Lee Andrew Smith and six other incarcerated people felt free — for a few hours.
The Marshall Projectby Kwaneta Harris28 Aug 2026
The invitation arrived folded in half, its edges soft from being passed hand to hand. When I opened it, hand-drawn wedding bells and butterflies spilled across the page in colored pencil.
The Marshall Projectby Candice Norwood27 Aug 2026
Suzanne Garcia looked down and away from the officer’s gaze as she went through the motions of a routine jail intake inspection: Remove all clothing, including underwear. Raise both arms.
The Marshall Projectby Brittany Hailer26 Aug 2026
It was hard not to feel hopeless. Locked away from everyone and everything they knew, they spent their teenage years inside youth residential treatment centers, face to face with violence.
The Marshall Projectby Anna Flagg25 Aug 2026
More than 45,000 people were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month, the highest number since Donald Trump retook office, according to data the Deportation Data Project released...
The Marshall Projectby Jesse Bogan24 Aug 2026
LIBERTY, Mo. — Fresh out of jail in New York, Carl Henry Louis jumped on a bus, yearning to see a world beyond the Big Apple and his past.
The Marshall Projectby Maurice Chammah23 Aug 2026
This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by incarcerated artists.
The Marshall Projectby Shannon Heffernan22 Aug 2026
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.
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