The Marshall Project
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The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about inequities within the U.S. criminal justice system. The Marshall Project has been described as an advocacy group by some,[citation needed] and works to impact the system through journalism.
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Available in | English |
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Created by | Neil Barsky |
Editor | Bill Keller (2014–2019) Susan Chira (2019–present) |
President | Carroll Bogert |
URL | www |
Registration | Non-profit |
Launched | November 2014; 9 years ago (2014-11) |
It was founded by former hedge fund manager and prison abolitionist Neil Barsky with former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller as its first editor-in-chief.[1][2][3][4][5] It has won the Pulitzer Prize twice.[6][7]
The organization's name honors Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP's civil rights activist and attorney whose arguments won the landmark U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation case, Brown vs. Board of Education, who later became the first African-American justice of that Court.[8]