Oct 26, 2024 · Some law enforcement leaders have already declared that they will not participate in mass deportation efforts. Even officials who have raised concerns about the challenges created by large influxes of migrants are not necessarily interested in mass deportation.

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.

Jul 25, 2024 · Since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, gleeful headlines have sprouted across the media, with a new descriptor for the former president: “felon.”. The New York Times editorial board condemned him under the pithy banner: “Donald Trump, Felon.”. The Washington Post ran an analysis by senior political reporter Aaron Blake headlined: “Trump is a felon.

Jan 6, 2024 · Federal Prisons Are Over Capacity — Yet Efforts to Ease Overcrowding Are Ending The Bureau of Prisons’ system is in trouble and needs serious upgrades on several fronts.

The president’s actions move the federal government toward his promised hardline position. But some executive orders will face court challenges.

Dec 11, 2024 · A mairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean section, they gave her midazolam, a benzodiazepine commonly prescribed to keep patients calm. A day later, the grieving mother was cradling her stillborn daughter when a social worker stopped by ...

Apr 4, 2024 · C harles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it. He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White people, according to the Census — who would be granted full citizenship after the Civil War.. By 1868, Caldwell was one of 16 Black delegates at the state’s post-war constitutional ...

Jan 10, 2025 · Our eighth annual diversity report. Find previous years’ reports here. In 2024, The Marshall Project’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee worked to expand the gender and race categorizations for this report.

Nov 9, 2024 · It wasn’t all bad news for the criminal justice reform advocates. Reformist prosecutors also won races against opponents promising more punitive approaches in places like Lake County, Illinois; Oakland County, Michigan; and Albany County, New York. And in Florida, Monique Worrell won her job back after Gov. Ron DeSantis booted her from office last year, claiming that she had failed to ...

Nov 15, 2024 · T he Marshall Project was born 10 years ago out of frustration and hope. Frustration that injustices and abuses in the criminal justice system were so rarely covered or publicly understood. And hope because, in a time of sustained low crime rates and increasing concern about the social and financial costs of mass incarceration, there appeared a bipartisan openness to change.