The Marshall Project’s Tim Golden

A Lousy Habit-Kicker

Tim Golden is managing editor for investigations and news of the nonprofit news organization The Marshall Project, which covers the U.S. criminal justice system. Previously he was an investigative reporter at The New York Times. Before moderating a panel on why there are so many people in prison in America and California today, he talked about his many childhood heroes, why he may go back to Honduras but probably not Albania, and the biggest difference between nonprofit and for-profit journalism.

November 5, 2014

Can We Be Optimistic with Millions Behind Bars?

The Way Americans Talk About Prisons Has Shifted. The Nation’s Policies Have Yet to Catch Up.

by Sarah Rothbard | September 17, 2014

Should we be optimistic about the criminal justice and prison systems in America? This was the question Tim Golden, The Marshall Project’s managing editor for investigations and news, posed to …

Your Dad’s in Prison, Too?

After Being Married to a Man Behind Bars, I Started a Club for Kids With Loved Ones in the System

by Amy Friedman | April 7, 2014

In 1992, I began raising my new husband’s pre-teen daughters. The girls were blond and blue-eyed, slender and elegant—if occasionally awkward as they headed into their teens. They looked like …

Born Into the Cycle

Part Three: The Men In My Mother’s Life Could Be Charming, But They Brought Trouble Of Their Own

by Lakesha Townsend | May 22, 2013

(In the previous installment of Born Into the Cycle, Lakesha Townsend described growing up with her mother, Gracie Marshel Wilson, known as “Michelle,” in the Imperial Courts project of Watts. …

Daycare Behind Bars

An Interview With Photographer Richard Ross

May 1, 2012

by Stephanie Washburn

Richard Ross is a photographer, researcher, and professor of art based in Santa Barbara, California. In his most recent work, supported by a grant from the Annie E. …

Don’t Let Houston Put Us To Shame

L.A. Used To Be a Model Of Juvenile Justice. Why Not Be One Again?

by Mark Ridley-Thomas | April 25, 2012

Several weeks ago, I was a spectator in a remarkable classroom. An instructor from India was teaching a group of African-American, Latino, and white high school students about religion in …

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