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Jay Jordan, the project director for Time Done, a nonprofit that works with former convicts, in Oakland, Calif., March 7, 2019. Under a proposed law in California, millions of people like Jordan, who spent more than seven years in prison for robbery and auto theft, would have their criminal records automatically sealed from public view. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times).
Closing Argument April 1, 2023
How Criminal Records Hold Back Millions of People
More than 70 million Americans with arrest records face barriers to find work or a decent place to live.
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Law enforcement officers from around the U.S. on their fifth week of K-9 training work with the dogs on apprehending a suspect without the decoy using the typical bite gear at a Vohne Liche Kennels training facility near Grissom Air Force Base on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Dogs are muzzled for the protection of the decoy.
News December 23, 2020
We Investigated How Police Use Dogs as Weapons. Here’s How You Can Do It Too.
Our top tips for journalists from the partnership that produced “Mauled.”
By The Marshall Project
West Virginia does not pay for court reporters’ laptops, steno machine, software, or any other supplies.
Commentary March 21, 2017
Public Record, Astronomical Price
Unable to afford a trial transcript, a journalist digs into the laws that govern them.
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Analysis August 1, 2016
Is the Internet Endangering Criminal Informants?
A judicial committee proposes more secrecy.
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