CHRIS VISIONS FOR THE MARSHALL PROJECT By Aulzue “Blue” Fields as told to Leah Rhyne This story was first published on September 23, 2021. When I hear household names like George Floyd, Walter Scott and Alton Sterling, I don’t land on the grisly videos of their...
Teens at the Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville were held in solitary confinement around the clock, shackled with leg irons and deprived of an education. “This is child abuse,” one expert said. BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL, The Marshall Project; Erin Einhorn, NBC...
Demetrius Buckley thought his bond with his 11-year-old daughter was strong. But when he couldn’t physically protect his child from adult problems, he learned the limits of parenting via prison phone calls. JORGE GONZÁLEZ FOR THE MARSHALL PROJECT By DEMETRIUS BUCKLEY...
New York is closing one of its last ‘shock’ camps, a move some experts and former prisoners say is a long time coming. ANJALI NAIR/NBC NEWS By KERI BLAKINGER When she was arrested on drug charges in 2017, Ciera Saxby-Smith told herself she’d do anything to go home to...
After a state Supreme Court ruling, Monroe prisoner Arthur Longworth had his sentence reduced for the killing of Cynthia Nelson, 25. By Jake Goldstein-Street Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:07pm EVERETT — After over three decades behind bars, Arthur Longworth wrote he...
