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🚨 We are suing ICE and CBP to force the agencies to publicly disclose all the people in their custody. Learn more and support us at the link in our bio.
✍️: Dave Mann / The Marshall Project
🎨: Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project; source images: Marshall Project lawsuit; Audra Melton for The Marshall Project; and Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu, via Getty Images
📱: Brandon Wall / The Marshall Project
20 Oct 2026
President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge has ensnared thousands of kids and their families. You’ve likely heard that ICE has detained children for long stretches at the immigrant camp in Dilley, Texas.
But what you might not know is that officials have also kept many children in locations where lawyers and family members couldn’t find them, like hotels and office buildings.
To understand what’s happening, we’re tracking ICE arrests, detentions and deportations of children.
Our reporting is based on analysis of government records shared by the Deportation Data Project, a collaboration between UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Most immigration violations are civil, not criminal, and the vast majority of children counted in ICE’s arrest data have no criminal conviction or pending charges beyond the immigration violation.
Families’ lawyers said that many of these children have been in the U.S. for years, and are traumatically torn away from their friends, family and homes.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to see and bookmark our data dashboard.
✍️: Anna Flagg, Shannon Heffernan and Aaron Sankin / The Marshall Project
🎨: Anna Flagg / The Marshall Project
📱: Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project
08 Oct 2026
Protests against immigration raids and “No Kings” protests against Trump policies are spreading across the U.S. When people take to the streets to make their voices heard, they inevitably drag their digital trails right along. For most people, avoiding surveillance tech is virtually impossible — but some simple steps could help.
Did you know about these police tools?
12 Jun 2025
Today, a federal jury found Matthew Farwell, a former police officer, guilty of killing Sandra Birchmore in 2021. She was 23 and newly pregnant, believing Farwell to be the father. Prosecutors said Farwell killed her to keep her silent about his abuse.
Farwell first met Birchmore when she was a young teen in his police department’s Explorers program in Stoughton, Mass. He "began grooming and sexually exploiting" Birchmore for years, then killed her and "staged it to look like a suicide," according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts.
“Despite Mr. Farwell’s attempt to silence Sandra Birchmore, today her story is told. Through the testimony of friends and experts, through thousands of text messages and photos, what happened to Sandra Birchmore is no longer Mr. Farwell’s secret,” U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley said. “He now faces life in federal prison.”
The case is among at least 194 allegations that U.S. law enforcement personnel have groomed, sexually abused or engaged in inappropriate behavior with Explorers since 1974, we found in 2024.
Swipe to read some of Birchmore’s story.
“She had a lot of dreams and a lot of goals,” Barbara Wright told us in 2024 about her cousin. She added that Birchmore had hoped to go to nursing school. “She was just trying to make her way in this world, just like the rest of us.”
🔗 Read our investigation into Explorers programs nationwide at the link in our bio.
✍️: Lakeidra Chavis, Daphne Duret & Joseph Neff; additional reporting by Geoff Hing, David Eads, Weihua Li & Catherine Odom / The Marshall Project (2024)
📷: Sophie Park for The Marshall Project & 🎨: Leila Register / @nbcnews (2024)
📱: Ashley Dye (2026) and Kristin Bausch (2024) / The Marshall Project
#sandrabirchmore #stoughtonmass #bsaexplorers #explorersbsa
10 Nov 2026
For director Lynn Novick, photographs offer a window into the past that the written record cannot quite replicate. Novick, Ken Burns and their team encountered roughly 16,000 historical images of the American justice system while producing an upcoming PBS documentary.
We asked @lynnnovick to look closely at 10 images from that archive and share her thoughts on what the photos can tell us about the system, the people it’s encountered and ourselves in the process.
Swipe for part of our discussion, which has been edited for clarity and brevity.
We’ll post more of our talk on Nov. 16, when “Crime and Punishment in America” premieres on @PBS.
✍️: Jamiles Lartey / The Marshall Project
📱: Mariam Abaza and Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project
📷: Clara Sheldon Smith, from “Prisoners” by Arne Svenson and National Archives and Records Administration
09 Nov 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has moved to commute the death sentences of all 548 people facing execution in the state, allowing them to instead serve life sentences without the possibility of parole.
The California Supreme Court must approve some of these commutations. If they do, Newsom’s action would be responsible for the largest mass commutation of death sentences in U.S. history.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to learn more.
✍️: Maurice Chammah / The Marshall Project
🎥: Brandon Wall / The Marshall Project
📷: Apu Gomes/Getty Images
05 Nov 2026
After Tammy Reed’s son died, the prison gave her a box that contained what appeared to be someone else’s clothes and shoes.
The officials who run prisons and jails don't always return belongings to loved ones after a person dies behind bars. And if some beloved memento goes missing, families have little recourse.
See our previous posts for more stories.
🔗 Tap the link in bio to read the full report.
✍️: Aala Abdullahi and Shannon Heffernan / The Marshall Project
🎨: Juan Bernabeu (@juanbernabeulleo) / The Marshall Project
📱: Mariam Abaza and Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project
04 Nov 2026
In Virginia, democracy is literally on the ballot for people with felony convictions. Voters will decide whether to automatically restore their voting rights after they’re released from prison.
Some advocates are watching closely for lessons in Mississippi, which shares Virginia’s long history of felony disenfranchisement but has made fewer moves toward reform.
🔗 Our Mississippi-based reporter breaks it down at the link in our bio.
✍️: Caleb Bedillion / The Marshall Project
📷: Tom Brenner/Getty Images
📱: Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project
02 Nov 2026
If you had five minutes with a lawmaker, what would you say? We asked our incarcerated readers that question ahead of the midterms.
In many states, people with felony convictions can’t vote, and the consequences of this voter disenfranchisement are especially clear when bail and sentencing are on the ballot.
Swipe to read their responses. Like many Americans, incarcerated people are worried about inflation, the faulty medical care in U.S. prisons, and the age-old debate on whether the system is set up to rehabilitate or punish people.
“Sending Kites” is our monthly column that explores challenges faced by people with incarcerated loved ones and by people in jails and prisons. ("Kites" are letters or notes passed between people on the inside.) Readers are identified by only their state to protect their privacy.
🔗 Tap the link in our bio to read more perspectives & sign up for the monthly newsletter.
✍️: Curated by Tammy Galarza and Aala Abdullahi / The Marshall Project
💭: People incarcerated across the U.S.
📷: Adrian Hanft (@ade3) for The Marshall Project
📱: Tammy Galarza, with template by Ashley Dye and Elan Ullendorff / The Marshall Project
01 Nov 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (@nycmayor) opened a concert of music written behind bars, presented by The Marshall Project and @musicambia, an organization that brings music education into prisons.
The show featured formerly incarcerated musicians and was livestreamed into jails on Rikers Island and prisons across Colorado. In his speech, Mamdani paid tribute to Johnny Cash (@johnnycash) and Merle Haggard (@merlehaggardofficial), as well as the “thousands of musicians behind bars, writing songs without a stage, without an audience, without even instruments.”
🔗 Watch the full concert and sign up for a five-edition run of our Redemption Songs newsletter at the link in our bio.
✍️: The Marshall Project
🎥: Kaufman Music Center and Emily Reeves / The Marshall Project
📷: Columbia Records
📱: Emily Reeves / The Marshall Project
30 Oct 2026
Seven weeks after Michael Haines died, jail staff only handed over a bag of clothes and a few papers. Kate had expected to see his Bible.
But the officials who run prisons and jails don't always return belongings to loved ones after a person dies behind bars. If some beloved memento goes missing, families have little recourse.
We'll post carousels sharing the stories of one other family in the coming days. See our previous posts for more.
🔗 Tap the link in bio to read the full story.
✍️: Aala Abdullahi and Shannon Heffernan / The Marshall Project
🎨: Juan Bernabeu (@juanbernabeulleo) / The Marshall Project
📱: Mariam Abaza and Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project
28 Oct 2026
The number of kids in ICE detention each day has skyrocketed under the second Trump administration.
In early 2025, President Donald Trump reinstated family detention. Through early August 2026, ICE held a daily average of roughly 200 children in custody compared to just 23 under Biden in 2024 — a nearly ninefold rise.
Under previous presidential administrations, children in ICE detention were most likely to be granted release into the U.S. through orders of recognizance, parole or other discretionary forms of relief.
But in Trump’s second term, however, most were either deported or left the country as a “voluntary” departure.
Visit our profile feed to read their stories.
✍️: Anna Flagg, Shannon Heffernan and Aaron Sankin / The Marshall Project
🎨📊: Anna Flagg / The Marshall Project
📱: Ashley Dye / The Marshall Project
28 Oct 2026
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