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Our investigation exposed Mississippi’s modern-day debtors prisons. By The Marshall Project Reporters Anna Wolfe and Michelle Liu of Mississippi Today have been awarded the 2021 Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award for “Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi.” Their year-long investigation reveals how Mississippi locks people into modern-day debtors prisons where they’re sentenced to an amount of money, rather than time. First-of-its-kind data analysis by The Marshall Project’s Andrew R. Calderón shows that black people are disproportionately sentenced to these facilities, known as “restitution centers.” Wolfe, Liu and Calderón revealed that the people detained in these facilities are placed into low-wage, sometimes dangerous jobs the Mississippi Department of Corrections handles their paychecks and takes the first cut in “room and board” and transportation costs. Since the s ....