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Life Inside, Remixed: An Incarcerated Artist Learns to Paint Through the Chaos of Prison. Rafael Rodriguez’s artistic mentor and cellmate, Memo, taught him how to pour his anger and pain into oil painting. By The Marshall Project. Inside Story October 31.
Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Parole
Jul 10, 2015 · 8. Parole boards can dictate your life on the outside, too. Parole boards don't just decide who to send home. They also decide what the conditions of people's parole will be, and what the consequences are if they violate parole. In some states, boards can even decide whom to consider for parole and when. 9.
New Data Shows Violent Crime Is Up… And Also Down. - The …
Nov 3, 2023 · According to the FBI’s crime statistics, the number of murders dropped by 6.1% from 2021 to 2022, but is still higher than where it was prior to the pandemic. For some observers, the jump in serious violent crime was always bound to stabilize, as the shock from the early pandemic wore off. “Violent crime rates had been trending down for at ...
What to Know About the Rise in U.S. Mass Shootings
Nov 1, 2023 · The Violence Project counted eight mass shootings in 2021, and seven in 2022. As mass shootings in the U.S. reached a record high, so did the number of deaths and injuries. From 2018 to 2022, perpetrators killed 257 people — close to the 266 fatalities in the five-year period that ended in 2017, and significantly more than any previous period ...
A Boy Among Men - The Marshall Project
Feb 25, 2015 · He becomes a slave in the fullest sense of the term.”. the Scottsboro Boys 1 The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine black teenagers who in 1931 faced false accusations of raping two white women on an Alabama train. Their trials were marked by lynch mobs and all-white juries, and they have since been pardoned.
What 24 Hours in Prison Is Really Like | The Marshall Project
Jul 12, 2018 · Count times in prison are an imprecise science, from a convict’s point of view. Sure, they start at the same times each day: 5 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 4 p.m., 9 p.m., and midnight. But when each one might end is anybody’s guess. It’s basically purgatory. On this particular day, I get lucky.
I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
Nov 1, 2018 · One day, he came into the office, which was located in the back of the barracks and had brown paper covering its windows. He locked the door, and he raped me. Then he told me to “get my ass back to work,” and left. In the following days and weeks, he regularly threatened me, telling me to keep my mouth shut or else.
U.S. Mass Shootings On Rise No Matter How You Define Them
Jul 6, 2022 · The group counted 2,403 mass shootings from 2017 to 2021, with 2,495 dead and 10,225 injured. The group’s data reveals a steep rise in recent years: 692 mass shootings in 2021, up 66% from 2019’s total of 417. The group tallied 318 mass shootings as of 3 p.m. on July 5. That puts 2022 on track to finish as one of the deadliest years since ...
How Policing Has — and Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd
Aug 6, 2022 · At the federal level, bipartisan police reform negotiations died in Congress last year, followed by a consolation executive order signed by President Joe Biden in May. That measure replaced an ineffectual, and largely forgotten, executive order signed by former President Donald Trump in 2020. The Biden order was, like Trump’s, reflective of the president’s limited power …
Eyewitness Testimony Is Unreliable… Or Is It ... - The Marshall Project
Oct 30, 2015 · Burlington Police Department. To the swelling chorus of activists and researchers who argue that eyewitness testimony is both fundamentally unreliable and over-relied upon, the Cotton case is a prime example of what can go tragically wrong when court cases hinge on human recollection.