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Gun possession arrests doubled in Chicago, but shootings remained high — and unsolved

The Marshall Project’s year-long investigation found that arrests for gun possession — the vast majority involving young Black men — have grown to their highest level in decades. But violent crimes involving guns continued to jump, with few arrests in those cases.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 1, 2023

America’s book bans have already come for prisons

From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little oversight, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2023

The Problems With Just Getting Guns Out of People's Hands as a Solution to Gun Violence

New study sees Chicago harassing and arresting people for paperwork violations, damaging their ability to live and work, without demonstrable effect on gun violence

Reason · Mar 27, 2023

US jails rife with violence, abuse and overcrowding

Jails across the U.S. are suffering from overcrowding, violence and abuse

The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2022

A reporter's memoir of her jail time gets banned in Florida prisons

Keri Blakinger, a reporter with The Marshall Project, received word this week that the Florida state prison system placed her book, Corrections in Ink, on a temporary ban.

WEKU · Oct 28, 2022

Border cities again post low crime numbers

Many Republicans have focused on immigration ahead of the midterms, often portraying border communities as dangerous and lawless.

Axios · Oct 18, 2022

FBI says U.S. violent crimes decreased in 2021 but data is missing

The figures from President Biden's first year come as Republicans seek to make crime a major issue before the midterms.

Axios · Oct 5, 2022

What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem

Bill Keller, once editor of the New York Times, now with the Marshall Project, shows how the US came to imprison so many of its citizens, disproportionately Black and brown, and how such a gross injustice might yet be addressed

The Guardian - US · Oct 1, 2022

In Mississippi, Dozens of Mentally Ill People Are Held in Jails While Awaiting Inpatient Treatment

While a new report highlights Mississippi's jailing of mentally ill people, the practice is common nationwide.

Reason · Sep 15, 2022

Decades after foster care, she learned she was owed benefits. Where did the money go?

After reading an investigation by NPR and the Marshall Project, former foster youth are asking what happened to their benefits — and the government isn't helping.

WEKU · Jul 22, 2022