Superpredator
Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.
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Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.
Carroll Bogert, Lynell Hancock The Marshall Project Nov 2020 15min Permalink
A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.
Eli Hager The Marshall Project Jul 2020 30min Permalink
A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners’ families the thing they wanted most: to bring their children home.
Christie Thompson The Marshall Project Aug 2019 30min Permalink
The family separation crisis that no one knows about.
Eli Hager, Anna Flagg The Marshall Project Dec 2018 10min Permalink
Andrew Goldstein’s crime set in motion a dramatic shift in how we care for the violent mentally ill. Including for himself—when he’s released this month.
John J. Lennon, Bill Keller The Marshall Project Sep 2018 15min Permalink
Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.
Thomas L. Dybdahl The Marshall Project Jun 2018 20min Permalink
Can a violent adult jail teach kids to love school? A rare look inside one of the only high schools at an adult jail
Eli Hager The Marshall Project Jun 2018 10min Permalink
How Cops became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.
Tim Stelloh The Marshall Project Jan 2018 25min Permalink
More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.
Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Jan 2018 20min Permalink
When the prosecutor in a 1924 trial focused on the murder of a priest backed the suspect–and everything that followed.
Ken Armstrong The Marshall Project Dec 2016 25min Permalink
The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.
Eli Hager, Alysia Santo The Marshall Project Jul 2016 15min Permalink
“I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.”
Issac Bailey The Marshall Project Jun 2016 20min Permalink
Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.
Christie Thompson, Joe Shapiro The Marshall Project Mar 2016 20min Permalink
An attorney pieces together a life cut short.
Burke M. Butler The Marshall Project Mar 2016 20min Permalink
Voices from the inside of New York City’s infamous jail.
The Marshall Project Jun 2015 50min Permalink
On the penalties imposed – or not – on prison guards who have sex with inmates.
Alysia Santo The Marshall Project Jun 2015 10min Permalink
An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.
Ken Armstrong The Marshall Project Mar 2015 15min Permalink
Truancy is punishable by fines, probation, and in some cases throwing parents in prison. Does any of that really keep kids in school?
Dana Goldstein The Marshall Project Mar 2015 15min Permalink
Brutality persists at the famous prison.
Tom Robbins The Marshall Project Feb 2015 30min Permalink
A teenaged prisoner is left unprotected by America’s laws against prison rape.
Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Feb 2015 30min Permalink
How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.
Ken Armstrong The Marshall Project Nov 2014 20min Permalink
In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. The case hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse informant named Johnny E. Webb. Today, Webb says he lied.
Maurice Possley The Marshall Project Aug 2014 20min Permalink