The Marshall Project

Let’s Talk Politics

In the runup to the 2020 presidential election, our latest issue of News Inside explores the political opinions of incarcerated people.

The third issue of News Inside presents stories about politics and criminal justice in light of the . It is my hope that readers learn more about the candidates’ plans, think about how these plans may affect their lives, and take the first-ever political opinion survey of incarcerated people by a national publication.

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