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For a Prison Transfer 45 Minutes Away, I Spent 12 Days in Hell

From feces on the wall to constant gang calls, LaMarr W. Knox details the horrors of the transit unit at New York’s Green Haven prison.

An illustration shows a Black man with his eyes closed and his fingers over his ears to block out noise. Various uneven red lines are in the background.

$A magazine called News Inside set against a grainy tan backdrop. The cover says “Sing Sing Film Fest" and features a raised hand holding a film reel. Light refracted through prison bars shines onto the magazine.$

News Inside December 11

Lights, Camera, Action

News Inside Issue 18 provides a glimpse into the first-ever Sing Sing Film Festival.

By Lawrence Bartley

An illustration shows a person wearing a gray prison uniform standing in a spotlight. The person looks toward the background where four people sit at cafeteria tables in a white silhouette.

Life Inside December 6

I Found My Faith Community in Prison. Then My Facility Closed.

Rashon Venable spent three productive years at New York’s Sullivan Correctional Facility. A surprise shutdown sent the Muslim poet and writer into a tailspin.

By Rashon Venable

An illustration of a parole board table with two women seated and looking through paperwork while a man in a tie stands as he reads papers in his hands. Images of parole board hearings hang on the walls.

Life Inside November 8

Life Inside, Remixed: A Criminal Justice Reformer Takes on ‘Conveyor Belt Justice’

Carol Shapiro joined the New York parole board to make change. Marathon days, copious paperwork and dysfunctional hearings brought her to tears.

By The Marshall Project

A black-and-white illustration of a man alone in a prison cell with his left leg up on his bed, as light streams in from the windows.

Life Inside October 25

Life Inside, Remixed: Inside the Underground Economy of Solitary Confinement

Here’s how people in “the box” use their ingenuity, collaboration skills and a form of “fishing” to get the goods they need.

By The Marshall Project

A person wearing a blue uniform and black messenger bag walks toward the entrance of a hospital with a blue sign that reads, "Virtua Health Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital."

Closing Argument October 5

Drug Testing of Pregnant Patients Is Discriminatory, Lawsuit Claims

The Marshall Project recently investigated how faulty drug tests at hospitals lead to pregnant women being reported to authorities and at times separated from their children.

By Shoshana Walter

Susan Horton, a White woman wearing a black tank top, arranges her children’s toys on top of a table.

Feature September 9

She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.

Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.

By Shoshana Walter

Analysis August 28

5 Things to Know About How Survivors Get Incarcerated for Their Abusers’ Crimes

Little-known laws allow people to be punished for crimes they didn’t directly commit. Survivors of domestic violence are especially vulnerable.

By Shannon Heffernan

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a seated man with light-toned skin and short-cropped dark hair, signs a bill that is composed of a high stack of papers. Eight masked people with varying skin tones and genders stand behind him.

Election 2024 August 1

Facing Rollbacks, Criminal Justice Reformers Argue Policies Make People Safer

Advocates are refining their rebuttal to “tough on crime” messaging: Don’t focus on punishment, but on reforms that improve public safety.

By Shannon Heffernan

Jules Werkheiser, a White person wearing a leather jacket, with her wife, Samantha, a White woman wearing a blue floral dress, and their son, Julius.

Life Inside July 19

Love Beyond Bars: Jules and Samantha

Jules and Samantha Werkheiser fought their wrongful convictions for over a decade. Here’s their journey of survival — and motherhood — in pictures.

Photographs by Camille Farrah Lenain
As-told-to by Carla Canning