Katie Park, one of the journalists behind the project, talks to Street Roots about what the team has learned: ‘This really is a serious issue behind bars’ The Marshall Project has been tracking confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths within America’s state ...
10 Mar 2021 - Emily Green
Hearings on a criminal justice reform bill draw testimony about mandatory minimums, parole restrictions and more Kenneth McGee ran into an old acquaintance online Feb. 25 during a public hearing on House Bill 2002 on criminal justice reform. It was former ...
10 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson
Experiencing, or even witnessing, violence behind bars can have long-term impacts on prisoners, researcher Meghan Novisky explains Please note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violent acts. A merican prisons are violent places, and while not e ...
3 Mar 2021 - Emily Green
Episode 1: Former prisoners share violent events they experienced in prison, and a criminologist discusses how even indirect exposure to violence can have lingering effects on prisoners long after they're released Walled In is a podcast co-produced ...
28 Feb 2021 - Emily Green and Joshua Wright
Prison abolitionist Joshua Edward Wright has launched ‘The Exiled Voice,’ featuring interviews with people who have been incarcerated in Oregon In the 19th century, slave narratives from writers like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs played a critical ...
13 Jan 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
After spending most of his life in prison, Billy Baggett was released into a world he no longer understood, contending with a lifetime of trauma and coming to terms with his imminent death Introduction: On telling Billy's story He was dying, but he w ...
27 Dec 2020 - Emily Green
FROM THE EDITOR | To tell this story, Street Roots’ Emily Green immersed herself in the world of an ex-prisoner In 2019, more than 600,000 men and women were released from prisons across the United States. William “Billy” Baggett was one of them. Like mos ...
9 Dec 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
A prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary shares his experience in isolation after being tested for the virus Reprinted with permission from All Rise magazine. I sat on the top bunk of my 8-by-10 cell. As a 62-year-old man, I suffered from heart disease, an ...
29 Nov 2020 - Jimmie Cohron
All Rise, a new publication based in Portland, gives current and former prisoners a voice in a marketable format Lying bare the gritty firsthand accounts and austere imagery from inside the compounds of America’s penal system, All Rise magazine is the fir ...
9 Sep 2020 - Emily Green
Already deprived of in-person visits during the pandemic, prisoners and the people they talk to on the outside now face new fees and are subject to data collection After months without personal contact with their families and lawyers, prisoners are strugg ...
25 Jun 2020 - Chris May