A message from THE CITY's incoming Chief Executive Officer Carroll Bogert. https://t.co/qj4IviveXa

Classic Tom Robbins: when the media were criticizing the Manhattan DA for being soft on rich people, Tom wrote about how hard he was on the poor https://t.co/JRtE4owtjJ An honor to have worked with him @MarshallProj

Would you be offended to know that my boyfriend and I use #rihlive to get us back to sleep in the middle of the night? We learn things along the way!

I spent the last year reporting on the most interesting effort in a generation to transform American prisons — by giving prisoners more say over their environments. The story begins with a deadly riot in a prison named for Robert E. Lee. 🧵 https://t.co/0SYA4fN4aD

Let me show you a smart practice. "Investigate This" from the Marshall Project gives other newsrooms the tools they need to do their own versions of investigations the Marshall Project succeeded with. https://t.co/y82xux7aAq A "reporting recipe" is what @propublica calls it.

Are you a criminal justice reporter, or a storyteller interested in criminal justice issues? @marshallproj just launched Investigate This! with toolkits to help local journalists and others with their original reporting. Check it out:

The word fell out of favor in media for good reason, writes @carrollbogert, president of the @MarshallProj. https://t.co/uuElIsr3GY

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Since she first launched her lawsuit, video calls have become even more prevalent – and awfully expensive when you consider the rest of us make those calls for free. The cost of video calls can be capped by the @FCC.

Martha Wright-Reed started this campaign more than 20 years ago. She was a grandma paying for calls to her grandson behind bars. She passed away in 2015 before seeing the real fruits of her advocacy. Here’s a great timeline from @prisonpolicy

The @FCC will hold a hearing on March 16 to begin defining what “just and reasonable” phone rates should look like. It issued a “notice of proposed rule-making” today:

That’s why Congress explicitly gave the @FCC the authority to set rates for in-state calls, in the Martha Wright-Reed Act passed just after Christmas. Senator @tammyduckworth of Illinois sponsored the Act.

Prison telecom companies have fought to keep the @FCC from limiting their profits. They won a 2015 federal lawsuit arguing the agency had overstepped its authority by capping prison phone calls made within a state.

Rosenworcel said she wants to “beat the deadline” of 18 months to establish the new caps. The question is: how tight will those caps be?

FCC chair @JRosenworcel called the current rates “high and even usurious” in a conversation with @MarshallProj today. Some families pay hundreds of dollars a month for services that the rest of us enjoy virtually free.

Today the @FCC began the process of limiting what people in prison have to pay for phone calls. This is the biggest-yet federal effort to bring down prison phone costs, and private prison telecom companies have fought it tooth and nail.

“You are sending them out into the world with more problems than they came in,” our reporter @schwartzapfel says. Our premiere of Inside Story with @VICENews looks at juvenile justice in Louisiana. Watch the full episode: https://t.co/CDpVpmzdG3

What’s life really like behind bars? Hear from the people who have been there. 

🎥 Inside Story: a first-of-its-kind news show made by formerly incarcerated people. Premiering Thursday with @VICENews.

People locked up in Texas prisons can read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but not “On Lynchings” by pioneering Black journalist Ida B. Wells. Go figure. See @MarshallProj database of books banned in prisons, state by state: https://t.co/CQH4IfWET7