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The Marshall Project

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Apr 21, 2022

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THREAD: Hey, @keribla here. For decades, Houston crime coverage has ended w "anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS," along with a reward promise.

But recently, Crime Stoppers of Houston has been blasting out a different, more political message.

@nytimes

On TV and online, the traditionally nonpartisan nonprofit condemns Democratic judges while praising Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

Its stance also intersects with Crime Stoppers’ own financial interests, @nytimes’ @Fahrenthold & I found.
themarshallproject.org/2022/04/21/cri…

The nonprofit has become reliant on grants backed by Abbott — including $4 million in 2017 that was never publicized by the governor or Crime Stoppers — per our review of financial documents & government records, plus dozens of interviews. nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/…

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The Marshall Project

@MarshallProj

Dec 15, 2021

NEW: In the seaside city of New Bedford, Mass., home to the highest-earning commercial fishing port in the U.S., a tight-knit community of immigrant families is still struggling after being left out of most federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic. THREAD themarshallproject.org/2021/12/15/ess…

2/ In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, the seafood plants of New Bedford were deemed essential by federal authorities, remaining open as other businesses locked down.

3/ The workers at the packing plants, many of them undocumented Mayan immigrants from the highlands of Guatemala, speak with pride of the seafood they packed for American tables during the pandemic.

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The Marshall Project

@MarshallProj

Aug 13, 2021

NEW: Police in rural areas shoot and kill about 200 people every year, yet there’s little public attention paid to these deaths, and no national call to action. We spent a year examining police shootings in rural America.

Here's what we found: trib.al/W2l3r6M

Officers in rural areas fatally shot about 1,200 people from 2015 through 2020, while in cities there were at least 2,100 such deaths, according to our analysis; no comprehensive government database exists.

We looked closely at the Kentucky State Police, the agency with the largest number of rural killings in the country from 2015 through 2020. Troopers there killed at least 41 people in that period, including 33 in rural areas.

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The Marshall Project

@MarshallProj

Mar 26, 2021

@marshallproj

This week, new COVID-19 cases in prisons were near the lowest of the pandemic in @marshallproj and @AP’s data. But we noticed that @officialFBOP has been removing cases from their totals. So now we can’t accurately count how many cases there have been. themarshallproject.org/2020/05/01/a-s…

@officialFBOP

For context, @officialFBOP had reported more COVID-19 cases among prisoners — more than 49,000, including private facilities — than any system in the country. But now they are reporting more than 300 fewer cases than at the beginning of March.

@officialFBOP

When we asked the @officialFBOP about it, a spokesman wrote, "If an inmate releases... who was previously listed as a 'Positive' or 'Recovered' case, that case will be removed from the current 'Positive' or 'Recovered' total".

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The Marshall Project

@MarshallProj

Mar 24, 2021

New: Sara Gruen, author of the massive bestseller “Water for Elephants” embarked on an obsessive quest to help overturn the conviction of a man she is convinced has been wrongfully imprisoned. It nearly ruined her life.
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Since her novel sold 10 million copies worldwide and inspired a movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Sara Gruen has received dozens of letters from prisoners. But one from a man named Chuck Murdoch was different. He didn’t ask for money or even a response.

“I just finished devouring your WATER FOR ELEPHANTS,” Murdoch wrote. “Oh man… it was AWESOME!” He wondered if Sara had based one of her characters of her novel, Lottie the Aerialist, on his grandmother.

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The Marshall Project

@MarshallProj

Nov 20, 2020

NEW: 25 years ago this month, one article introduced a new term: “Superpredator.”

The phrase had a powerful impact on how we treat kids who commit crimes. Politicians have disavowed it. But not the media outlets that cemented it in our natl. vocabulary. bit.ly/334v4pF

We analyzed media coverage after the term “superpredator” was coined.

Our review of stories from 40 media outlets in the five years after the term first appeared shows it popped up nearly 300 times. That is almost certainly an undercount.

“He called them superpredators,” Trump recently insisted in his final debate with Biden. There is no record of Biden using the term, but in the 90s, both political parties embraced harsh anti-crime legislation. Hillary Clinton used the term in 1996 and apologized for it in 2016.