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The Marshall Project. “This year’s winning projects show us the power of justice journalism. As an institution that educates fierce advocates for justice, we are proud to highlight their work,” said President Mason.  “Each of these projects shined a bright light on injustice and inequity and sparked calls for action leading to significant policy changes.” “For the sixteenth year in a row, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is pleased to recognize the most compelling journalistic examinations of crime, violence, and justice in the United States,” said Foundation President Da...

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 b...