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Alabama
Feature
September 9
She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.
Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.
By
Shoshana Walter
Life Inside
August 16
A Mother on a Mission for Full Police Transparency
Troy, Alabama, police severely beat Ulysses Wilkerson when he was 17. Seven years later, his mom, Angela Williams, is still fighting for answers.
By Angela Williams as told to
Brittany Hailer
Closing Argument
June 22
The New Battle Over an Old Institution: Forced Prison Labor
Inside the latest legal and legislative efforts to close state constitutional loopholes that allow slavery as punishment for a crime.
By
Jamiles Lartey
Closing Argument
February 3
The Food on Your Table, Brought to You By Prison Labor
Incarcerated workers help produce some of America’s most popular food brands, but get few of the benefits and protections afforded to others.
By
Jamiles Lartey
Closing Argument
January 27
New Execution Methods, Old Problems
What the first execution by nitrogen in the U.S. says about capital punishment.
By
Jamiles Lartey
Death Sentences
January 18
Vomiting, Seizures, Stroke: What Could Happen in the First Nitrogen Execution in the U.S.
A doctor on what’s new — and what isn’t — about the latest death penalty experiment.
By
Maurice Chammah
Closing Argument
December 9, 2023
What the End of Roe Looks Like in Real Time
The ripple effects of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision wind their way through state and local governments.
By
Cary Aspinwall
Feature
September 5, 2023
The Marshall Project and FRONTLINE Present ‘Two Strikes’ and ‘Tutwiler’
A special broadcast of two short documentaries gives a rare insight into life behind bars.
Two Strikes by
Ursula Liang
,
Tessa Travis
and
Cary Aspinwall
Tutwiler by
Elaine McMillion Sheldon
and
Alysia Santo
News and Awards
August 29
Watch the Trailer for ‘Two Strikes’ and ‘Tutwiler’
The Marshall Project and Frontline’s short prison documentaries will air on PBS and can be streamed online.
By
The Marshall Project
Feature
July 26
How One Alabama County Declared War on Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs
Some women were prosecuted for smoking marijuana before they even knew they were expecting.
By
Amy Yurkanin
, AL.com