Despite their hard-stance bluster, death penalty states rarely impose the ultimate sentence, even if you’re the prisoner and you ask them to.
The Marshall Project
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Harvard’s About-Face on Michelle Jones’s Acceptance
The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.
Posted inEditor's Pick
From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
A feature, produced in a collaboration between The New York Times and The Marshall Project, about Harvard University’s eleventh-hour flip-flop on its acceptance of ex-convict Michelle Jones to its doctoral program in history. Jones, who spent more than two decades in prison for the murder of her four-year-old son, conceived non-consensually when she was 14, […]
Posted inNonfiction
Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica
A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica
A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.
Posted inNonfiction
The Day My Brother Took a Life and Changed Mine Forever
I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Day My Brother Took a Life and Changed Mine Forever
I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Poor Excuse for Justice: A Rape Recanted, a Victim Re-victimized
A description of a horrific attack by a serial rapist — whose victim the police refused to believe — from an in-depth investigative report by T. Christian Millar and Ken Marshall on ProPublica.
Posted inReading List, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The Dallas Observer, The Marshall Project, GQ, Dissent, and SB Nation.