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Tabloids Fuel Collective Anxiety Attack Over Bail Ban

“Nowhere did the articles note that only six defendants, out of the nearly 5,000 who go through the city’s “supervised release” programs every year, have ever gotten to go to a baseball game—that it was a one-time event, six months before the law was even set to take effect. And it was a private donor who’d paid for their tickets, not taxpayers. The teens were there as a reward for having attended every one of their court dates, for actively participating in their group therapy sessions and for being responsive to feedback on their behavior.“

The Marshall Project

November 14, 2019

Media CoveragePhillip ReevesNovember 14, 2019The Marshall Project, New York PostComment

It's Time to Change the Way the Media Covers Crime

“But we journalists have also helped drive decades of harsh criminal justice policy. In the American media, coverage of violent crime rose sharply just as the rate of violent crime actually began to fall. From 1990 to 1992, the evening broadcasts of the three major networks averaged fewer than 100 murder stories each year. By 1999, they were broadcasting an average of 511 murder stories per year, although the murder rate plummeted 40 percent during the 1990s.”

The Marshall Project

May 31, 2019

Media CoveragePhillip ReevesSeptember 23, 2019The Marshall ProjectComment

What's The Story? Criminal Justice and Sports

““What’s the Story?” is a monthly speaker series hosted by The Marshall Project, featuring prominent Americans as they explore how to create and disrupt narratives around criminal justice. This series will feature a conversation with Maya Moore, Michael Rubin and Clinton Yates, moderated by Carroll Bogert, President of The Marshall Project.“

The Marshall Project

September 17, 2019

Phillip ReevesSeptember 17, 2019The Marshall Project, Sports, Maya Moore, Michael Rubin, Clinton YatesComment

In Just Two States, All Prisoners Can Vote. Here's Why Few Do.

“Yet the barriers to voting, both external and internal, remain high. Incarcerated people are restricted from using the Internet and often cut off from news in the places they used to live. They are not allowed to campaign for candidates, display posters or show other signs of political partisanship.“

The Marshall Project

June 11, 2019

Felon DisenfranchisementPhillip ReevesJune 11, 2019The Marshall Project, Maine, VermontComment

Drawing from Memory: A Former Prisoner Creates Art from Pain and Loss

“In “Saints, Sinners & Lost Beginners,” from 2014, hundreds of open-mouthed figures crowd towards a wall with a slot machine. “It was sort of about the appeal system,” Nardone said. “Everyone was turning a blind eye, even God. The dice are snake eyes.” In “Silence...Repent,” from 2005, prisoners appear to live in repetitious anonymity, in rings that orbit the earth. In “Last One Done in a Cell,” from 2016, a hand reaches up towards a ladder, surrounded by cell bars, as pocket watches fall from the sky: “Every watch has a time that represents when I lost someone while I was in prison. I went in with a flesh and blood family, and I came out to tombstones.”“

The Marshall Project

April 22, 2019

Access to Outside WorldPhillip ReevesApril 22, 2019The Marshall ProjectComment

Penitentiary Rock: The Radio Show With a Captive Audience

“Unfortunately, the musical selection on the 15 or so North Carolina stations I can pick up leaves quite a bit to be desired. And this is why I look forward to Friday night. The weekly radio show known as “Penitentiary Rock”—or “Pen Rock” for short—first aired on WKNC 88.1, the N.C. State University station, during the 1990s. This was before my arrival on death row.“

The Marshall Project

December 20, 2018

Civil Society SolutionsPhillip ReevesDecember 20, 2018The Marshall ProjectComment

Why Police Should Embrace Communities—Not Shut Them Out

“Fast forward to 2015. As a member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st-Century Policing, I listened when Camden County, New Jersey, Police Chief J. Scott Thomson explained that ‘community policing starts on the street corner, with respectful interaction between a police officer and a local resident.’ That interaction is missing from Manasseh’s video.“

The Marshall Project

October 30, 2018

Police-Community TrustPhillip ReevesOctober 30, 2018The Marshall ProjectComment

The Terrible Cost of The Sentence

“Shank’s incarceration not only altered her life, but that of her family, including her husband, parents, the three little girls who would grow up without her, and her brother, Rudy Valdez, a teacher whose initial plan to shoot home video of his nieces to send to Shank transformed him into a documentary filmmaker and prison reform activist.“

The Marshall Project

October 11, 2018

The Prison Portraits

“At first, his pencil-on-paper portraits of fellow prisoners were meant to be gifts they could give to their parents, wives and children. Eventually, Loughney realized that lining hundreds of them up on a wall would make for a dramatic comment on politics and policy.“

The Marshall Project

October 4, 2018

Personalism, Access to Outside WorldPhillip ReevesOctober 8, 2018The Marshall Project, PennsylvaniaComment

When Trying to Help Gets You Fired

“When backup arrived, Williams raised his gun in their direction and the officers fired, killing him. A few weeks later, Mader was ousted by the police department of Weirton, West Virginia, for failing to eliminate a threat. Mader is not alone. Across the country, police officers have been disciplined for doing what they believe is the right thing.“

The Marshall Project

September 17, 2018

Police Violence, Police-Community TrustPhillip ReevesSeptember 18, 2018The Marshall Project, West VirginiaComment

A Former Warden’s View on Prison Strikes

"It’s the way that inmates are being treated. As warden of five different correctional facilities, I always told my staff that inmates are incarcerated as punishment, not for punishment. That’s where correctional administration, correctional staff miss the mark at times. "

The Marshall Project

August 22, 2018

Mass IncarcerationAnthony BradleyAugust 24, 2018The Marshall Project, Prison Strike

Training the Brain to Stay Out of Jail

"A small but ambitious nonprofit organization in Charleston called the Turning Leaf Project is taking the one approach that research seems to suggest actually works: It’s training habitual offenders to change how they think, and therefore how they act, with cognitive behavioral therapy. During CBT, patients learn to identify antisocial thoughts and then replace them with healthier ones; for years, this popular form of talk therapy has been used to treat depression, post-traumatic stress, eating disorders and other psychological problems."

The Marshall Project

June 26, 2018

The Radio Show that Reunited Inmates and Families

"The trip, free of charge, was made possible by local philanthropy but also, in a way, by the power of a radio program — “Calls From Home”— that airs once a week on a tiny Kentucky radio station, WMMT....“Calls From Home,” offers prisoners’ relatives the chance to call in and record greetings that are then played from 9 to 10 p.m. on Mondays. Inmates can listen on Mp3 players that are sold at the prison commissary."

The Marshall Project

March 13, 2016

Civil Society SolutionsAnthony BradleyJuly 23, 2018Kentucky, Radio, Calls From Home, The Marshall ProjectComment

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