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Lawrence Bartley is the publisher of The Marshall Project Inside, the organization’s publications intended specifically for incarcerated audiences. He is also the host and executive producer of Inside Story, a new video series delivering trustworthy reporting to incarcerated people and the broader public. He has served as founder and director of News Inside, the print publication of The Marshall Project, which is distributed in hundreds of prisons and jails throughout the United States. News Inside received the 2020 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. Lawrence was a member of the team behind “The Zo,” winner of the 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence and Innovation and recipient of an Emmy nod in the area of News & Documentary. He is also an accomplished public speaker and has provided multimedia content for CNN, PBS, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC and more.
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A gray chain-link fence topped with barbed wire outside an Oklahoma jail.
Inside Story October 24
Effort to Provide Low-Cost Health Care Behind Bars Stirs Controversy
Examining a company providing low-cost health care services at jails across the U.S., and a formerly incarcerated person shares how a mentor behind bars saved his life.
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A Black woman with short hair, wearing a patterned-pink jacket, sits in a chair in a courtroom with a small smile on her face.
Inside Story October 17
Americans With Past Convictions Fight to Regain Right to Vote
A Tennessee woman tries to regain her right to vote after a conviction, and entrepreneur Topeka Sam talks about what she learned while in prison.
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A White man can be seen through the back of a wooden dining-table chair.
Inside Story October 10
Toll of Prison Staff Shortages on Guards, Prisoners and Their Families
Prison staff shortages impact guards, prisoners and their families, and comedian Donnell Rawlings talks about his connection to the system.
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An illustration of a brown-skinned man wearing a yellow jail jumpsuit sitting at the edge of a bunk bed, as two bunk beds sit empty in the background.
Life Inside October 4
Life Inside, Remixed: What 90 Days in Jail Taught a Poet About America
Ravi Shankar was born in D.C. to South Indian parents. But it took going to jail for him to fully understand what many other Americans of color face.
By The Marshall Project
A Black man with glasses and a black fedora, black vest and red button-down shirt.
Inside Story October 3
Discredited Hair Analysis Is Fueling Efforts to Overturn Convictions
Rapper Common talks about his work bringing music into prisons, and incarcerated people fight their convictions from debunked forensic science.
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Inside Story September 24
Inside Story Season 2 to Premiere Soon
The video series, developed by formerly incarcerated people, about the criminal justice system returns for another season.
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News Inside August 1
Drawing Attention
News Inside Issue 17 features the opinions of justice-affected people on Trump’s felonies, and a nonfiction comic about death penalty mitigation.
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Former President Donald Trump, wearing a yellow tie with a dark-red graphical pattern, sits at a courtroom table, his hands folded, looking into the camera, while his defense attorney sits alongside him and a court officer stands watch behind them.
Feature June 4
A Jury of Trump’s Peers Weighs In
We asked 12 people with criminal convictions what they think of the verdict in Trump’s hush money trial.
By The Marshall Project
A magazine called News Inside set against a grainy tan backdrop. Light refracted through prison bars shines onto the magazine.
News Inside March 22
Her Story
Issue 16 highlights women’s experiences in the U.S. criminal justice system.
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A magazine called News Inside set against a grainy grey backdrop. The cover says “When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row.” Light refracted through prison bars shines onto the magazine.
News Inside December 7, 2023
More to Explore in Expanded News Inside
Issue 15 branches out with a special section for people incarcerated in Ohio.
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