Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Donald Trump’s Statements About ...
Oct 21, 2024 · For Donald Trump, immigrants bring crime. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said during his 2015 campaign announcement. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.
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.
Kamala Harris’ Complex Record as Prosecutor: What to Know | The ...
Jul 27, 2024 · What These Decisions Tell Us About Kamala Harris’ Approach to Criminal Justice From the death penalty to school truancy and diversion programs, here are some key steps Harris took as a district attorney and attorney general.
Federal Prisons Are Over Capacity - The Marshall Project
Jan 6, 2024 · is a staff writer for The Marshall Project covering prison conditions, experiences of the incarcerated, their families and corrections officers, the federal Bureau of Prisons and the death penalty.
Life Without Parole Is Replacing the Death Penalty — But the Legal ...
May 22, 2021 · Life-without-parole sentences are steadily replacing the death penalty across the United States. Almost 56,000 people nationwide are now serving sentences that will keep them locked up until they die, an increase of 66% since 2003, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that advocates for shorter prison terms. By comparison, only 2,500 people nationally are on death row according to ...
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.
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 …
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 ...
How Federal Prisons Are Getting Worse - The Marshall Project
Mar 2, 2024 · Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters testifies as Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz listens during a U.S. Senate hearing about deaths in federal prisons, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
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.