A new project from The Marshall Project finds some overlap with a recent Serial Productions series.
It’s not often you get a chance to explore the full story behind a curious detail., from February, was a tautly constructed piece on the unsolved 1985 killing of a Wyoming woman named Shelli Wiley.
This is a piece about the nature of parole hearings and who gets to determine the threshold for rehabilitation.takes quite a bit of time getting to the heart of its project.
“Jake’s case sort of encapsulates the kinds of stories we’re drawn to at the Marshall Project,” said the Boston-based Schwartzapfel when we spoke over the phone earlier this week. “We tend to write about the cases that are not so cut and dried. If somebody’s innocent, they should get out of prison, and there are lots of reasons that they don’t, and there are lots of scholars who write about why that is.
“Yeah, I get that,” she said. “True crime can be, for a lack of better word, pretty gross and prurient and sensationalistic and all that. We certainly didn’t want to be any of those things, but at the same time, there is the strong possibility of drawing in people who have an interest in that kind of thing. So the hope is that we keep them long enough to get them to think a little more about the criminal-justice system, why we lock people up, and what our goal is.
— “was what inspired the founding of the Marshall Project, and he did an amazing job with the podcast.”
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