A lot of emotion in the @pghguild.com newsroom this weekend as we make, edit and publish what looks to be the last Sunday strike paper. It's full of champions and winners, doers and helpers. And I'm talking about its journalists: www.unionprogress.com

Despite legal challenges, jails across the country are still filthy with plumbing issues, vermin, feces-covered walls, & limited access to basic hygiene products [ @ivyscott.bsky.social @brittanyhailer.bsky.social @dajaehenry.com @themarshallproject.org ] www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/09/j...

Lucas County’s juvenile court is reconsidering its relationship with Ashland County youth treatment center Mohican Young Star Academy after being made aware of The Marshall Project reporting that detailed fights inside the facility. www.toledoblade.com/local/politi...

NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

“After a period of psychiatric hospital closures and investment in community support, Pennsylvania has shifted focus to the most restrictive care possible…for people who have been put at risk in an ill-equipped justice system, for actions that in many cases could have been prevented with care.”

While you're all here, if you want to read some actual journalism, this is the second story in my series about the collapse of the mental health care system in Pennsylvania. I'm really proud of it.

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Mohican Young Star, a 110-bed facility that aims to treat children with behavioral and mental health problems had survived a state effort to shut it down several years ago. New owners renewed expectations, until the fights erupted inside the facility. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/06/r...

This is some excellent reporting. These kids deserve better. The staff deserves better. Leadership needs to be better.

This is a horror story from a youth residential treatment center in Ohio, woof.

Screams and bangs echoed inside Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment center. Some children rushed outside to grab rocks. A teacher ushered her students into the cafeteria for safety. Another teacher texted her mother, pleading with her to call 911: “Call them. Call mom please.”

Screams and bangs echoed inside Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment center. Some children rushed outside to grab rocks. A teacher ushered her students into the cafeteria for safety. Another teacher texted her mother, pleading with her to call 911: “Call them. Call mom please.”

Ohio's largest youth treatment center, a 110-bed facility on the edge of a state forest, has become a locus of chaos over the past year. Kids are hurt and cause hurt. Staff are told not to call 911. Community members are confused and concerned. Stunning work from @brittanyhailer.bsky.social.

Incredible reporting by @brittanyhailer.bsky.social for @themarshallproject.org on the tragic and dangerous conditions inside youth treatment centers. Hailer is one of the best there is out there. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/06/r...

Once one person trusted me enough to talk, my number spread through the Mohican Young Star Academy network. Over and over, I heard the same thing about the residential treatment facility for boys: someone is going to get hurt. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/06/r...

When someone dies behind bars, the officials who run prisons and jails don't always return all of their belongings to their loved ones. Books, drawings, letters, and other memorabilia, for many families, are precious reminders of the person they've lost.

New investigation w/ @invisibae.bsky.social: Baltimore County has the worst racial disparities in traffic stops throughout Maryland. Officers accused of profiling are quickly exonerated despite issuing 70-89% of their tickets to Black drivers. Read more: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Tasha Grant told a deputy and hospital staff 23 times that she could not breathe. Instead of an evaluation, she got handcuffs and skepticism.

"You’re yelling, so you can breathe,” said one of the officers who forcefully restrained her. Grant gasped, moaned and settled motionless onto her stomach while handcuffed to a hospital bed. Her death was later ruled a homicide."

Tasha Grant said the words until she could speak them no more.“I can’t breathe,” she repeated 23 times to MetroHealth Medical Center staff, three hospital police officers and the sheriff’s deputy guarding her. Officer: “You’re yelling, so you can breathe.” www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/21/t...

Can’t wait to file FOIAs for those body-cam videos #BringInTheLight

Yesterday, Lance Shockley was executed in Missouri. His two daughters attended the execution. The experiences of children with parents on death row are often forgotten when it comes to capital punishment. Of the past 10 people who have faced execution in Missouri, at least six had children.

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Cuyahoga County Sheriff Harold Pretel is refusing to seek independent investigations into three women’s deaths that occurred during encounters with his deputies, despite a growing call for more scrutiny from the victims’ families and advocacy organizations.

Filth, dysfunction and extortion. "It's the wild, wild west in there," Tedrick Francois told me after spending time in Raymond Detention Center. People awaiting trial there sleep alongside mice, have limited access to laundry, and must pay to use a toilet. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/09/j...

More out of the Cuyahoga County Jail: over a one-year period there were 334 work orders placed for malfunctioning or unusable showers, including clogged drains and black mold. One woman told me she had to clean the bathroom with menstrual pads. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/09/j...

Cuyahoga County Sheriff Harold Pretel is refusing to seek independent investigation into the death of Tasha Grant, a double amputee who died after being restrained by officers. With @markpuente.bsky.social and @douglivingston.bsky.social www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/07/c...

"In at least one case, the lack of care has also extended to an expectant mother. This week, The San Francisco Chronicle told the story of Angie Rodriguez, a 26-year-old San Jose, California, woman who discovered she was pregnant, and then miscarried while in ICE custody."

I have been working in Cleveland under two years with @markpuente.bsky.social and @douglivingston.bsky.social. We’ve reported on four deaths in the custody of the Cuyahoga County Jail. The most recent being Tasha Grant whose death was ruled a homicide. 🧵 www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/25/c...

The medical examiner identified internal bleeding in muscles caused by pressure placed on Tasha Grant’s neck, and video of the restraint showed Grant’s chest and abdomen against the side of the hospital bed as pressure was applied to her backside.

When someone dies in jail or prison, the circumstances surrounding their death are often shrouded in secrecy. In these as-told-to’s, three women detail their search for answers. One describes her process as “putting together a puzzle with no picture.”

Tasha Grant is the second double amputee to die in Cuyahoga County Sheriff custody. Fred Maynard died after choking on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in front of correctional officers at the Cuyahoga County Jail in August 2023. themarshallproject.org/2025/01/23/c...

Cuyahoga County officials never disclosed that Ms. Grant died as a result of being physically restrained by a deputy. The Marshall Project-Cleveland team broke the news last night. w/ @brittanyhailer.bsky.social & Doug Livingston. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/25/c...

The Cuyahoga County medical examiner identified internal bleeding in muscles caused by pressure placed on Tasha Grant’s neck. "She had no legs. Why would they restrain her down like that?” said Marcellus Potter, who shares an 11-year-old son with Grant. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/25/c...

Tanisha Long shared her thoughts online, and "within hours, her phone was lighting up with notifications: people trying to hack her Instagram, calling her racial slurs, and wishing her dead." My latest, a Ximena Conde collab @inquirer.com www.inquirer.com/politics/cha...

The East Cleveland Jail — made infamous in Season 3 of the podcast “Serial” and at the center of a $30 million court judgment — quietly closed in December after two inspections found dozens of violations. www.news5cleveland.com/news/the-mar...

Today, we sent a letter to @themarshallproject.org‬ leadership expressing concern about their denial of bargaining obligations. Management has repeatedly denied members Weingarten rights, engaged in an illegal layoff, and more — we need your help to demand that management bargain in good faith.

A couple weeks ago, I published the first installment in an investigation I've been working on for two years. But in reality, it's an extension of work @brittanyhailer.bsky.social and I started back in 2022 to understand why people with severe mental illnesses are ending up incarcerated.

Very few investigations occur in a vacuum. @dtohl.bsky.social 'e latest investigation started as a follow up on her and @brittanyhailer.bsky.social 's work on PA's competency system. Good thread by Danielle here explaining the origins of 'The Cost of Failing' www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/07...

@dtohl.bsky.social worked two years to get this story right. I am proud of her and so glad someone FINALLY tracked down how Pennsylvania broke decades of promises to build a better system for people with mental illness. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/07...

This is Sue’s story. But it could be the story of any of the roughly half a dozen families I spoke to for this investigation. And it’s the story of what failure over three decades means for real people, a mother and son.

Two years ago, after publishing a story on competency assessments trapping people in jail, I got a call from Sue. She told me about her yearslong struggle to get her son mental health care, and how none of it mattered. In the end, all of those attempts failed to find stability for her son Robert.

What happens when someone dies in the Cuyahoga County Jail? www.clevescene.com/news/what-ha...

In Cuyahoga County, corrections officer union members call the local jail “a sick building.” For years, it’s been routinely cited for not providing incarcerated people access to sunlight. But none of those citations have led to fines or other sanctions.

In Cuyahoga County, a jail death triggers mandatory investigations. Here’s what all Ohio sheriffs are supposed to do, and how to check their work.

Important explainer about investigations of deaths behind bars in Ohio.

Important new piece from @brittanyhailer.bsky.social @themarshallproject.org

I wrote about the steps local, state and federal agencies are supposed to take when someone dies in a jail in Ohio. We also included what records in those investigations should be available to the public. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/24/c...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what Independence Day means to them. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/04/w...

The absolute best, Brittany Hailer out here doing her thing. Only in Cleveland. (Pittsburgh still misses her though.) @brittanyhailer.bsky.social thelandcle.org/stories/im-a...