Cary Aspinwall

From the IAmA community on Reddit: The U.S. immigration detention budget is exploding, mass deportations continue daily and business is booming for private prisons holding detainees. We are journalist... Explore this post and more from the IAmA community

Tomorrow on @Reddit @reddit_AMA - we are some of the reporters for @MarshallProj reporting on immigration detention & courts: Ask us anything!

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Dozens of Teens From Abusive Florida School Ended Up on Death Row Michael Bell, set to be executed Tuesday, is among at least 34 boys from the Dozier School later sentenced to death. Did abuse make them more violent?

Michael Bell, set to be executed Tuesday, is among at least 34 boys from the Dozier School later sentenced to death. Did abuse make them more violent?

Had to say goodbye to this sweet angel teddy bear boy this weekend. 💔 Rescues are worth every moment of work.

Why This Conservative Town Is Fighting a New Immigration Prison Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

A private prison firm wants to detain immigrants in this Kansas town. Its residents are pushing back Residents of Leavenworth are organizing against CoreCivic’s efforts to reopen a problematic prison

“CoreCivic has repeatedly shown that it is incapable of running a humane facility. Now, the company flouts city approval to move forward with an ICE center based on false promises.”

In filings, the city argued the company previously ran an “absolute hell hole”

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Why This Conservative Town Is Fighting a New Immigration Prison Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Come along with me, on a journey to Leavenworth, KS, where a bunch of locals -including some nuns - are fighting the reopening of a CoreCivic facility to warehouse immigration detainees. They hatched plans at the library over homemade cookies & sun tea: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/01/l...

The Mississippi Supreme Court is now requiring greater transparency from the local judges who largely manage the state's patchwork public defense systems.

In a recent letter, Chief Justice Michael Randolph told circuit judges to file written public defense plans by Sept. 5.

Why This Conservative Town Is Fighting a New Immigration Prison Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Leavenworth, KS had one go-round with CoreCivic from 1992 to 2021. Now, the private prison operator is trying to reopen a detention center there. Local residents don't want a round 2.

A good read from @caryaspinwall.bsky.social

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Could not be more proud of my longtime friends @zivabranstetter.bsky.social & @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social & their amazing all-female team winning a Pulitzer for this important reporting 💪

These States Have Investigated Miscarriages and Stillbirths as Crimes A recent arrest in Georgia highlights the criminal suspicion that surrounds pregnancy loss in several states, experts say.

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🕊️ In post-Roe America, grief’s invisible strings are being tied into chains. In Georgia, Ohio, and Alabama, miscarriage—already heavy with sorrow—can now summon handcuffs instead of compassion.
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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

Thank you @taquitoroller.bsky.social for carving this fun read out of a chaotic zoom chat 😂😂😂

The history of @readfrontier.bsky.social

Last year, @caryaspinwall.bsky.social of @themarshallproject.org, briokc.bsky.social of @readfrontier.bsky.social & Sachi McClendon exposed how more than 50 people died in U.S. jails while under Turn Key’s care, including the Cookie Queen, Shannon Hanchett. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/07/30/o...

These States Have Investigated Miscarriages and Stillbirths as Crimes A recent arrest in Georgia highlights the criminal suspicion that surrounds pregnancy loss in several states, experts say.

"In the first year after the Dobbs decision — from June 2022 to June 2023 — there were at least 210 pregnancy-related prosecutions."

"[N]early half of the cases came from Alabama."
#Healthcare #Alabama #USA #USPol

How Houston Mayor John Whitmire kept Texas prisons hot as 'living hell' More than 80,000 Texas prisoners live in facilities that lack air conditioning. They have former state senator and Houston Mayor John Whitmire to thank.

How John Whitmire kept Texas prisons hot as 'living hell' www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Colorado Transparency News - 2/28/2025 Newsletter of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition

Colorado Transparency News: #SunshineWeek transparency slam; $13,650 penalty for "arbitrary and capricious" records response; CORA bill; wide-ranging transparency bill; RTD CORA fees; PERA board transparency; more. #coleg #copolitics

In its 60 years, Medicaid has grown from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance, covering 72 million people. Here is where enrollment in the program is highest. nyti.ms/4intZxz

SCOTUS orders a new trial for Richard Glossip
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How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’ The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.

Almost 200,000 people are expected to die in prison due to a life sentence in the United States. @caryaspinwall.bsky.social writes about the rise of Death By Incarceration for @themarshallproject.org.

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Jan. 6 conspiracy theory promoter named to a top State Department job Darren Beattie, who's claimed the FBI was responsible for the 2021 attack on the Capitol, has been named acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.

Jan. 6 conspiracy theory promoter named to a top State Department job

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Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

“There is not one single entity holding Musk accountable. It’s a harbinger of the destruction of our basic institutions.” Incredible details in a horrifying @nytimes.com story.

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How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’ The number of people imprisoned for life continues to climb, even as the overall prison population declines.

"56,000 people [are] serving life without parole in the U.S."

"[A] significant portion of [...] 'death by incarceration' sentences were [for] offenses such as robbery, burglary or drug crimes."

"[H]alf of all people serving life sentences are Black."
@caryaspinwall.bsky.social #uspol #drugsky

Prayers for everyone in California 🙏🏻

Native American patients are sent to collections for debts the government owes Patients received medical bills that should have been covered by the Indian Health Service due in part to funding and staff shortages.

People in Native American-majority communities are nearly twice as likely to have medical debt in collections compared with the national average.

Via @kffhealthnews.bsky.social
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Advice from OSU SMSC j-grad & Pulitzer finalist @caryaspinwall.bsky.social : Do the work that no one else is willing to do. Every time I take a call when I don't have to, or show up in person when someone else might have just phoned, the universe hands me an even better story.

Almost 3 years after we published video of a transgender man being beaten by a sheriff's deputy in a 7-Eleven parking lot, the deputy has pleaded guilty to a federal felony.

FWIW... this is after the sheriff's department reviewed the case and found the force was... all within policy.

My First Byline: Cary Aspinwall Staff writer, The Marshall Project

Spoke to @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social about how I got started in this crazy business:

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Opinion | The Tragic Link Between Pregnancy and Homicide For women under 25, getting pregnant more than doubles their risk of homicide.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

When American women under 25 get pregnant, their odds of death by homicide more than double.

This is just one of their stories.