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The Mississippi Supreme Court building in January 2024. The state Supreme Court recently instructed local circuit judges to publicly disclose in writing how they provide poor defendants with their Sixth Amendment right to an attorney.

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‘I’m About to Die Here’: What a Power Outage and Heatwave Were Like in a Jail With No AC (www.themarshallproject.org)

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As temperatures neared 100 in June, a power outage cut off cool air to the poorly ventilated county jail in downtown Cleveland. With most windows sealed shut, it got dangerously hot, people inside say.

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‘Hold People Accountable’: Why Mississippi Courts Must Now Produce Public Defense Plans (www.themarshallproject.org)

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The Mississippi Supreme Court building in January 2024. The state Supreme Court recently instructed local circuit judges to publicly disclose in writing how they provide poor defendants with their Sixth Amendment right to an attorney.

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Why a Prison Town That Voted for Trump Is Fighting an Immigration Detention Facility (www.themarshallproject.org)

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CoreCivic has renamed its facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, “The Midwest Regional Reception Center.”

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How ‘Coercive Control’ Is Expanding Domestic Abuse Laws in Several States (www.themarshallproject.org)

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The South Carolina State Capitol.

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Why I Blew the Whistle on Extreme Confinement on Rikers Island (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Judges in Missouri Can Levy Death if Juries Deadlock. Some Say the Law Is Unconstitutional. (www.themarshallproject.org)

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How Ohio Prison Staff Open and Read Confidential Legal Mail (www.themarshallproject.org)

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These States Are Debating Castration for Sex Crimes. Experts Call It Cruel and Pointless. (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Louisiana Rep. Delisha Boyd speaks in New Orleans in 2024. The Democrat co-authored the bill that allows surgical castration to be used as a punishment for sex crimes.

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He Spent Years in Federal Prisons. Now He’s Helping to Lead Them. (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Josh J. Smith spoke at an event in Tennessee in 2022.

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A North Carolina County Wanted New Court to Stem Its Opioid Crisis. Then Came Trump’s Cuts. (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Misty McCann, a peer support specialist at Project Lazarus in Wilkes County, North Carolina, helps a client find temporary housing. Project Lazarus lost a $900,000 federal grant to open a recovery court, which would have hired peer support specialists to work with court participants.

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Have We Been Wrong About ‘Psychopaths’? (www.themarshallproject.org)

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The Feds Are Offering Migrants Cash to Self-Deport. Lawyers Call These Incentives Misleading. (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Immigration officers escort migrants being deported from the U.S. in Nogales, Arizona, in January 2025.

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From Budget Chaos to Public Defenders: Mississippi Poised to Fund ‘Day 1’ Experiment (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Mississippi lawmakers met in May for a special session to finalize the state’s budget and agreed to spend $668,000 on a test program to improve public defense in one of the state’s most rural court districts.

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Cuyahoga Deputy Who Shot at Two Teens Was Deemed Unfit for Suburban Force (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Sheriff’s Deputy Isen Vajusi, on the left in the back row, shot a teenager in the leg in October 2024 and fired four rounds at another teenager on May 16. He was not injured. The Mentor Police Department deemed Vajusi unfit to be an officer in 2021.

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What History Tells Us to Expect From Trump’s Escalation in Los Angeles Protests (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Members of the California National Guard stand in front of protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 8, 2025.

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From New York to Arizona, More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Poppy seeds, used in salads and other foods, can yield positive results for opiates in urine tests.

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How AI-Powered Police Forces Watch Your Every Move (www.themarshallproject.org)

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A video surveillance camera is mounted to the side of a building in San Francisco, California, in 2019.

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This Mix of Therapies Is Helping to Stop Youth Violence in Chicago (www.themarshallproject.org)

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T-Man, a teen in Chicago who lost his cousin to an overdose, had joined Choose to Change, a program that pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring to help kids cope with the violence they witness.

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Judge Stops Federal Prisons From Enforcing Trump’s Trans Care Ban, For Now (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Senior Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, pictured in 2008, ruled that federal officials cannot withhold gender-affirming care from people incarcerated in federal prisons while a lawsuit proceeds.

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No Camera, No Case? A New York Trial Shows It’s Hard to Prove Prison Abuse Without Video (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Michael McCallion, who asked that his face not be shown, said that a group of corrections officers beat him, breaking four of his ribs, in October 2020 at a prison in Gouverneur, New York.

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‘Freedom for Captives!’ Trump Puts Clemency Machine Into Overdrive for Political Allies (www.themarshallproject.org)

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Ed Martin speaks during a press conference on May 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C. President Trump appointed Martin to run the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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