Each week in 2016, we revealed a new portrait and story about a Richmonder whose life is shaped in some way by the justice system— part of a year-long study of the justice landscape in Virginia’s capital city. Richmond Justice grew from years of making media about incarceration that helped us to appreciate at least two essential facts: The number of people touched by the justice system is far greater than folks tend to imagine, and stories about institutions and individuals shaping one an- other through crime and punishment are too profound to go untold. When we think about people affected by the justice system, we are—more often than one might expect—thinking about our neighbors. To care for them requires that we understand them, through their own words.

Check out the entire series at richmondjustice.org.