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4:15 p.m. EDT
04.10.2025
Your insights assist inform The Marshall Mission’s reporting on what households undergo when somebody dies in custody.
When somebody dies in jail or jail, their household is commonly left with extra questions than solutions. Official studies may be imprecise or delayed, and important particulars about an individual’s last hours might by no means be absolutely examined or defined.
A workforce of reporters at The Marshall Mission, a nonprofit newsroom that makes use of journalism to assist make the U.S. legal authorized system extra honest, clear and humane, is wanting into what individuals undergo when a relative or shut buddy dies in custody — or shortly after returning residence. We need to perceive many facets of the household expertise. How did you study in regards to the loss of life? Have been you given clear details about what occurred? Have been you in a position to 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 information or solutions for years?
We created a brief questionnaire for anybody who has misplaced somebody in jail or jail. Your enter can assist ensure that our reporting is complete and displays the experiences of hundreds of households throughout the nation. Together with your assist, we are able to uncover necessary patterns, corresponding to constant failures to inform subsequent of kin or lacking and conflicting info in official studies. And we are able to determine and reply frequent questions that households have when somebody dies in state custody.
We perceive that sharing your story or revisiting painful particulars may be tough. Please fill out the questionnaire provided that you are feeling in a position, and please contemplate passing this alongside to anybody else you understand 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.
For those who’d wish to get in contact immediately with us, you may attain out through electronic mail deaths-in-custody@themarshallproject.org or name or textual content us at (929) 524-7282.
The Marshall Mission takes your privateness significantly — your story is not going to be made public with out your permission. As soon as submitted, a journalist from The Marshall Mission might observe up with you for extra particulars.
