Beth Schwartzapfel is a criminal justice reporter. Currently, she is a staff writer for The Marshall Project, where she covers addiction and health, probation and parole, and LGBTQ+ issues. Schwartzapfel's work has won appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and NPR. Before joining The Marshall Project, she covered the criminal justice system as a freelance journalist for more than a decade. Schwartzapfel received her B.A. in English from Brown University and her M.F.A. in Creative nonfiction from The New School.