New Data Shows How Dire the Prison Staffing Shortage Really Is
Jan 10, 2024 · Meanwhile, state prison populations are rising.The number of people behind bars steadily declined starting in 2013 and then drastically dropped during the pandemic, when states released people to ease dangerous COVID-19 conditions, and court systems slowed.But by 2022, the number of people held in state prisons started to bounce back to over 1 million people.
I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
Nov 1, 2018 · O nce I got to prison, I was dealing with extreme guilt over my aunt’s death, and fear, because I was still a child and felt desperately alone. I continued to act out, like the teenager I was, by committing all the standard rule infractions, among them insolence to staff and possession of contraband.
5 Things to Know About Kamala Harris’ Criminal Justice Record
Jul 21, 2024 · According to Jamilah King, writing for Mother Jones in 2018, “Harris has long tried to bridge the tricky divide between social progressivism and the work required as a prosecutor — sometimes more successfully than others.” One characteristic example: As San Francisco district attorney, Harris vowed not to seek the death penalty, but as …
About Us - The Marshall Project
By Neil Barsky, 11.15.2014. The seeds of The Marshall Project were planted several years ago, after I read two books. The first, the now-famous “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander, argues that mass incarceration — which dates roughly from President Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs in the 1980s to the present — represents the third phase of …
A Boy Among Men - The Marshall Project
Feb 25, 2015 · John didn’t take these letters seriously; he threw many of them away. He settled into GED classes and shifts serving breakfast and lunch. From the prison library he pulled volumes ranging from the poems of Langston Hughes (“They’re so simple, but they explain so much”) to thriller paperbacks by Dean Koontz and James Patterson.
What to Know About the Rise in U.S. Mass Shootings
Nov 1, 2023 · In 2022, The Marshall Project looked at trends in mass shootings in the U.S. Here is an update of that piece. L ast week, a gunman opened fire in Lewiston, Maine, ultimately killing at least 18 people at a bowling alley and a nearby bar. He was found dead after a two-day manhunt. Maine, which has one of the lowest homicides rates in the nation, remains in shock.
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
Jun 8, 2020 · Parker used the phrase ‘thin blue line’ constantly in his speeches. The phrase was further popularized by the novels of Joseph Wambaugh, and it typified Parker’s philosophy: having served in the military, he wanted to end corruption and professionalize the police force.. In his view, the police “protected Western civilization …
New Data Shows Violent Crime Is Up… And Also Down. - The …
Nov 3, 2023 · Federal reports show similar long-term trends in violent crime, but diverge significantly on year-over-year changes. Both reports show a return to pre-pandemic levels of violent crime since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out three years prior, and a similar pattern: The violent crime rate exhibited significant fluctuations during the pandemic, but by 2022, it had returned to pre-pandemic levels.
A Civilian's Guide to Insurrection Legalese - The Marshall Project
Jan 8, 2021 · Matthew Schneider, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, has already told the Detroit Free Press that more “seditious conspiracy” charges may result from the Capitol takeover, and legal experts told the newspaper that interrupting the counting of electoral votes clearly violated the ban on delaying the execution of U.S. law. Other federal prosecutors around the country have ...
U.S. Mass Shootings On Rise No Matter How You Define Them
Jul 6, 2022 · The Marshall Project updated this reporting after the October 2023 mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine. The update includes data from 2022, which was not available for this original report, as well as two 2021 shootings added by The Violence Project after we conducted our initial analysis.. On the morning of July 4, President Joe Biden hailed the day as one to “celebrate the goodness of our ...
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