Using Marshall Project Datasets and Reporting Tools for your Criminal Justice Stories

Using Marshall Project Datasets and Reporting Tools for your Criminal Justice Stories

The Marshall Project has been sharing its national datasets and other reporting tools with local journalists to jumpstart valuable criminal justice coverage. We aim to save local newsrooms time and resources by offering data trends, story ideas, and sourcing leads for them to build upon with their local expertise.

TMP’s story toolkits include free illustrations and embeddable graphics that can be customized to show state-level trends. In this session, we’ll explain how to interpret the data from our latest toolkit on prison staffing trends, including how to localize your audio story, and we’ll discuss techniques for investigating deaths behind bars, including what “receipts” to track down through records requests. Accessing these resources will allow local journalists to hold power to account and shine a light on a criminal justice system that affects over one hundred million people in the US. 

Michelle Billman The Marshall Project

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