The Marshall Project

🚨🔎 We’re launching Investigate This! for journalists in local newsrooms who want to use Marshall Project datasets and reporting to craft original criminal justice stories in their communities. We’ve created free story toolkits with resources from sourcing guidance to shareable illustrations. Toolkits can help you investigate topics impacting prisons such as banned books, staffing declines and COVID deaths.   Learn more below. You can also reach out to Michelle Billman with any questions or to connect via email at investigatethis@themarshallproject.org.

ICYMI: NPR's Marc Rivers shares insights from Sing Sing's first-ever film festival that we hosted in October. Take a listen 🎧

Did the general election mark the end of the progressive prosecutor movement? Lakeidra Chavis unpacks ⬇️

We were awarded a 2024 EPPY Award for our investigation with St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports that dug into why more than a thousand homicides committed over the last decade in St. Louis remain unsolved.

👋 We're co-hosting a session for journalism educators and advisors to have a dialogue on how to share criminal justice datasets and reporting resources with student journalists. Quick details: 🗓️ noon ET on Dec. 4 💻 Zoom webinar — RSVP below 💡 Our editors David Eads & Nicole Lewis will discuss tools they’ve built for local journalists 🤝 in partnership with the Student Press Law Center + the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont We want to hear from you on how we can make our toolkits as useful as possible for your students. Learn more & RSVP ⬇️

Hinds County District Attorney Jody E. Owens II and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba vow to fight federal corruption charges and not step down. For at least the last 50 years, it has not been unusual for top-ranking elected officials across the U.S. to keep their offices as they fight the charges, even after major felony indictments for corruption, according to legal experts interviewed by The Marshall Project - Jackson. From Daja E. Henry:

Carol Shapiro joined the New York parole board to make change. Marathon days, copious paperwork and dysfunctional hearings brought her to tears. Watch her story ⬇️

Over 27 years behind bars, Bobby Bostic learned to inspire people in dark places. It all started with the “complete failure” of his first big speech.

We regularly publish Impact Reports detailing the real-world changes that have resulted from our journalism. See our latest report below, or check out previous reports at https://lnkd.in/ehfA2Gdq

About 2,000 transgender people are incarcerated in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons — a tiny fraction of the federal prison population. But they are disproportionately targeted for abuse and assault. Here are key takeaways from our story about one trans woman’s legal battle for accountability, by Beth Schwartzapfel