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Mosi Secret was a staff writer for the Independent Weekly in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina since 2005, while also working for the last two years as a stringer for the New York Times. Earlier, he worked at the Houston Press and the Columbia Journalism Review. Secret won the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for distinguished coverage of children and families in both 2007 and 2008 and the North Carolina Press Association Award for Investigative Reporting in 2007.

Articles

Buffalo Jail With a Grim History Agrees to Suicide-Prevention Steps

Add-on to Health Care Bill Gives Feds More Power to Investigate Jail Conditions

A provision tucked away in the health care reform law will allow the Justice Department to compel publicly run prisons, jails, mental health facilities and nursing homes to open their doors and records for inspection. 

Small County Jail in Upstate New York Has Big Problem With Suicides

Some smaller jails are struggling to meet the basic federal requirements for safeguarding mentally ill inmates. The Erie County Holding Facility, a 680-bed jail in Buffalo, N.Y., has a suicide rate five times the national average. 

Frank Now Suspicious of DA Check Program

Volunteers: Help Us Report on Your County’s Bounced Check Program

Volunteers: Help Us Report on Your County’s Bounced Check Program

Fact-Checking Obama on That Job Count

Morning Cup: Construction Machinery Is In Demand, Even If Workers Are Not

At Long Last, Some Records From Middlesex County

Morning Cup: Stimulus Hearing and Palin’s Backtracking

Morning Cup: Home State Advantage

Morning Cup of Stimulus: Happy (Two Month) Birthday, Stimulus!

Morning Cup: Planes, Trains and Transformers

Promise Clock: Middlesex County (Mass.) District Attorney Unresponsive to Public Records Act

District Attorneys Can Keep Cashing In On Check Fees

Push to Redo Law That Lets DAs Profit From Bad Checks

Bounced Checks: How Local District Attorneys Get a Cut of the Debt Collection Business

Revenues Gained by Prosecutors’ Offices in Partnership With Private Diversion Programs

Update: Madoff Stays Out of the Slammer

Why Didn’t Madoff Get the Slammer in the First Place?

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