The Marshall Project and VICE World News immediately introduced the launch of Inside Story, a weekly video collection designed to tell folks each inside and out of doors of jail partitions.

The partnership delivers the very best of each worlds to succeed in incarcerated folks: The Marshall Project’s award-winning investigative prison justice journalism and VICE News’ Emmy-winning newsroom and method to storytelling.

Inside Story — premiering Feb. 2 — is co-created by The Marshall Project’s Lawrence Bartley and Donald Washington Jr., each of whom served time behind bars. The collection options outstanding changemakers in coverage, leisure and social justice, together with previously incarcerated folks. The first season contains lawyer and government director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson, actors La La Anthony and Gbenga Akinnagbe, comedians Luenell and Ali Siddiq, author Piper Kerman, TV chef Fernando Ruiz and lots of others.

“Prison and jail walls aren’t meant just to keep people in, they’re also meant to keep information out,” stated Bartley, writer of The Marshall Project Inside and co-creator of Inside Story. After becoming a member of The Marshall Project in 2018, he developed a print publication to get information behind bars, however quickly found incarcerated folks wanted extra methods to entry prison justice info.

“There’s a large population of people who have literacy issues and can’t read our content. So Donald and I came up with the idea to create a video series. That idea became Inside Story,” Bartley stated.

Episodes of Inside Story will probably be posted on The Marshall Project’s website and VICE News’ YouTube each Thursday at midday EST. The collection can even air on the VICE News FAST channel. People who’re incarcerated also can entry the collection on prison tablets, and it’ll even be broadcast on correctional services’ closed-circuit TVs in sure states. It will probably be out there to just about 1,200 prisons and jails throughout 48 states and counting.

“The biggest news desert in America is the one behind bars,” stated Susan Chira, editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project. “With Inside Story, we’ll be able to bring The Marshall Project’s prize-winning journalism to a large and very neglected audience.”

“The partnership with The Marshall Project resonates with all of us at VICE World News who are committed to a core mission focused on the democratization of news and information,” stated Subrata De, EVP of News & Global Head of Programming and Documentary for VICE. “It’s been incredibly gratifying to help bring Lawrence and Donald’s vision to life through Inside Story.”

About The Marshall Project

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit information group that seeks to create and maintain a way of nationwide urgency in regards to the U.S. prison justice system. The Marshall Project engages the hundreds of thousands of individuals whose lives have been affected by the prison justice system. We companion with native and nationwide media shops to succeed in various audiences, from individuals who need to be taught extra about prison justice to consultants who flip to us for contemporary, correct info.

About VICE World News

VICE World News is VICE Media Group’s worldwide information community, producing a whole lot of hours of tv, digital and audio information programming for a worldwide viewers. VICE World News redefines what it means to be a worldwide information group for the following technology by specializing in groundbreaking content material and plugging into key shops the place youth are receiving their information. VICE World News has obtained numerous accolades, together with Emmys, Peabodys, GLAAD Media Awards, Overseas Press Club Awards, and SOPA Awards for content material spanning every part from worldwide sports activities docuseries to TikTok protection of the warfare in Ukraine that surpassed a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of views.