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4:15 p.m. EDT
04.10.2025
Your insights assist inform The Marshall Challenge’s reporting on what households undergo when somebody dies in custody.
When somebody dies in jail or jail, their household is usually left with extra questions than solutions. Official reviews could be imprecise or delayed, and significant particulars about an individual’s ultimate hours could by no means be totally examined or defined.
A crew of reporters at The Marshall Challenge, a nonprofit newsroom that makes use of journalism to assist make the U.S. felony authorized system extra honest, clear and humane, is wanting into what folks undergo when a relative or shut good friend dies in custody — or shortly after returning house. We need to perceive many facets of the household expertise. How did you be taught concerning the demise? Have been you given clear details about what occurred? Have been you capable of declare your member of the family’s physique and private belongings? Did your member of the family die in a hospital or quickly after being launched from jail or jail? Have you ever struggled to get data or solutions for years?
We created a brief questionnaire for anybody who has misplaced somebody in jail or jail. Your enter may also help make sure that our reporting is complete and displays the experiences of 1000’s of households throughout the nation. Along with your assist, we will uncover essential patterns, akin to constant failures to inform subsequent of kin or lacking and conflicting data in official reviews. And we will establish and reply frequent questions that households have when somebody dies in state custody.
We perceive that sharing your story or revisiting painful particulars could be tough. Please fill out the questionnaire provided that you’re feeling in a position, and please think about passing this alongside to anybody else who has been by way of the identical expertise. You may share as a lot or as little as you’re snug with. And you’ll cease at any time. If sharing these particulars could be too upsetting, please cease proper right here.
In case you’d prefer to get in contact instantly with us, you may attain out through e-mail deaths-in-custody@themarshallproject.org or name or textual content us at (929) 524-7282.
The Marshall Challenge takes your privateness critically — your story is not going to be made public with out your permission. As soon as submitted, a journalist from The Marshall Challenge could comply with up with you for extra particulars.
