The Marshall Project

The New Normal

The fifth edition of The Marshall Project's print publication explores a world transformed by COVID-19 and the George Floyd protests.

The fifth issue of News Inside, answers a desperate call in a desperate time. “Send me all the free news you can. Please, I need it all,” wrote W. Mason who is incarcerated in a Pennsylvania prison. Those are the kind of pleas we get from all over the country as incarcerated people in this moment of COVID-19 and global activism to end police brutality.

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