I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
Nov 1, 2018 · I grew up in Texarkana, Arkansas. I became a rebellious teenager. I met a boy. At that age, I did not know my own value, and was so caught up in the thrill of our young love that I made excuses for him when, shortly into our relationship, he started to call me names and was physically rough with me.
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.
New Data Shows Violent Crime Is Up… And Also Down. - The …
Nov 3, 2023 · Federal reports show similar long-term trends in violent crime, but diverge significantly on year-over-year changes. Both reports show a return to pre-pandemic levels of violent crime since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out three years prior, and a similar pattern: The violent crime rate exhibited significant fluctuations during the pandemic, but by 2022, it had returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Parole
Jul 10, 2015 · 3. If you are a farmer, auto salesman, DuPont executive or personal fitness trainer, you too can be on a parole board. Most states don’t require experience with the criminal justice system to be on a parole board.
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
Jun 8, 2020 · Parker used the phrase ‘thin blue line’ constantly in his speeches. The phrase was further popularized by the novels of Joseph Wambaugh, and it typified Parker’s philosophy: having served in the military, he wanted to end corruption and professionalize the police force.. In his view, the police “protected Western civilization …
The Next to Die - The Marshall Project
Feb 10, 2021 · With the Next to Die, The Marshall Project and our reporting partners tracked every execution in the United States from August 2015 to February 2021. By recording each story and noting every death, we wanted to show how the machinery of capital punishment quietly grinds forward while few are watching.
What 24 Hours in Prison Is Really Like | The Marshall Project
Jul 12, 2018 · At 1:30 a.m., I’m jarred awake in my cell by an officer wielding the brightest flashlight in the world. He gives me 10 minutes to throw on some clothes and escorts me to the isolation cells, where I strip down again for a thorough …
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 …
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 ...
What Can Death Row Prisoners Request Before They Die?
Sep 7, 2021 · The Texas Department of Criminal Justice told Ramirez this was against the rules. Ramirez, who was convicted of stabbing to death a Corpus Christi convenience store worker named Pablo Castro during a robbery in 2004, sued, saying it violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom.The agency declined to comment for this story, citing the litigation, but has previously said in ...