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Mississippi Takes Steps to End Damning Delays in Evaluating Criminal Defendants

by Sarah Smith

October 14, 2019, 10:39 am EDT
These Sheriffs Release Sick Inmates to Avoid Paying Their Hospital Bills

by Connor Sheets, AL.com

September 30, 2019, 6:00 am EDT
She Leapt From a Moving Car to Escape Her Rapist. Then, She Waited 18 Years for an Arrest.

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

September 6, 2019, 12:45 pm EDT
Netflix Series Based on Our Work Explores Costs of Not Believing Rape Victims

by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica

September 5, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Some of the Country’s Worst Prisons Have Escaped Justice Department Action

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

August 20, 2019, 3:00 pm EDT
Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs Have More Power Than Guards

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

August 19, 2019, 1:00 pm EDT
A Year After an Inmate Was Choked to Death in Jail, a Murder Charge but Few Details

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

August 15, 2019, 8:00 am EDT
The FBI Told Congress Domestic Terror Investigations Led to 90 Recent Arrests. It Wouldn’t Show Us Records of Even One.

by Fritz Zimmermann

August 9, 2019, 11:15 am EDT
We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

July 25, 2019, 1:35 pm EDT
Cops in One Village Have Been Convicted of 70 Crimes. Here’s What They Had to Say About It.

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

July 19, 2019, 12:00 pm EDT
The Questionable Conviction, and Re-Conviction, of Ricky Joyner

by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica

July 19, 2019, 6:00 am EDT
The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted of Domestic Violence

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

July 18, 2019, 11:30 am EDT
Deadly Delays in Jail Construction Cost Lives and Dollars Across California

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

July 17, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt

by Ava Kofman

July 3, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Have You Worn an Electronic Monitoring Device or Supervised Someone Wearing One? We Want to Hear About It.

by Ava Kofman

July 3, 2019, 4:59 am EDT
“Dire” Law Enforcement Crisis in Rural Alaska Prompts Emergency Declaration, New Federal Funding

by Alex Demarban

June 28, 2019, 5:49 pm EDT
The Sheriff Lost Reelection. Then the Spending Spree Began.

by Connor Sheets, AL.com

June 28, 2019, 8:00 am EDT
There Has Been an Explosion of Homicides in California’s County Jails. Here’s Why.

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

June 13, 2019, 8:00 am EDT
Wasted Funds, Destroyed Property: How Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection

by Connor Sheets, AL.com

June 12, 2019, 7:00 am EDT
How Nine Sheriffs Who Lost Reelection Made Life Harder for Their Successors

by Connor Sheets, AL.com

June 12, 2019, 7:00 am EDT
“No More Silence”: Her Kidnapping, Sexual Assault and Murder Stunned a Town, and Started a Movement

by Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News

June 4, 2019, 12:30 pm EDT
A Lawsuit Over Ferguson’s “Debtors Prison” Drags On

by Topher Sanders

May 31, 2019, 11:05 am EDT
“Enough Is Enough”: Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska’s Law Enforcement Crisis

by Alex Demarban and Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

May 30, 2019, 11:13 am EDT
Cruel and Unusual: A Guide to California’s Broken Prisons and the Fight to Fix Them

by Sacramento Bee and ProPublica

May 28, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Lawless

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

May 16, 2019, 11:30 am EDT
How We Tallied Alaska Villages Without Local Law Enforcement

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News, and Alex Mierjeski, ProPublica

May 16, 2019, 11:29 am EDT
Why We’re Investigating Sexual Violence in Alaska

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

May 16, 2019, 11:29 am EDT
Have You Experienced Sexual Violence in Alaska? We’d Like To Hear Your Story.

by Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, and Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

May 16, 2019, 11:29 am EDT
Years Ago, I Investigated Mississippi’s Prisons. Here’s Why I’m Doing It Again.

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

May 9, 2019, 6:00 am EDT
Trump Hailed This State’s Prison Reforms as a National Model — but the Numbers Reflect a Grim Reality

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

May 9, 2019, 6:00 am EDT
What’s Really Going On Inside Mississippi’s Prisons? We Need Your Help to Find Out.

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, and Kengo Tsutsumi, ProPublica

May 9, 2019, 6:00 am EDT
Last Rights: Making Sense of the Supreme Court’s Series of Death Penalty Rulings

by Joe Sexton

April 30, 2019, 3:39 pm EDT
California Tried to Fix Its Prisons. Now County Jails Are More Deadly.

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

April 24, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Chicago’s Inspector General Finds the City’s Gang Database Is Riddled With Errors

by Mick Dumke

April 11, 2019, 11:00 am EDT
Criminal Justice Legislation Will Force New York Prosecutors to Disclose More Evidence, Sooner

by Joaquin Sapien

April 8, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Joe Bryan Denied Parole for Seventh Time

by Pamela Colloff

April 5, 2019, 2:45 pm EDT
Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Charges After Software Tools Are Questioned

by Jack Gillum

April 3, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Two Indiana Police Officers Face Federal Charges in Videotaped Beating of Handcuffed Man

by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune

March 22, 2019, 12:34 pm EDT
5 Things You Need to Know About Hate Crimes in America

by Rachel Glickhouse

March 22, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Head of Rhode Island’s 911 System Is Removed From Post

by Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio

March 14, 2019, 3:23 pm EDT
New York City Council Passes Legislation to Help Workers in Private Trash Industry

by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica

February 28, 2019, 4:26 pm EST
Cook County Takes Steps to Erase Its Regional Gang Database

by Mick Dumke

February 20, 2019, 6:38 pm EST
What Do You Know About County Jails in California? Talk to Us.

by Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica, Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

February 12, 2019, 3:00 pm EST
Chicago Public Schools Monitored Social Media for Signs of Violence, Gang Membership

by Aaron Leibowitz for ProPublica Illinois, and Sarah Karp, WBEZ Chicago

February 11, 2019, 5:00 am EST
Domineque Ray Is Executed in Alabama After Supreme Court Bid Fails

by Lauren Gill for ProPublica

February 8, 2019, 3:58 pm EST
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office Says Its Gang Database Is on Lockdown, but Questions Remain

by Mick Dumke

February 7, 2019, 5:00 am EST
Detective in Elkhart, Indiana, Wrongful Conviction Case Dies in Apparent Suicide

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February 6, 2019, 1:39 pm EST
In Elkhart, Indiana, Another Conviction Gets Tossed. The Star Witness Was Hypnotized, a Fact the Prosecutor Concealed.

by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica

February 5, 2019, 4:30 pm EST
Domineque Ray Is Set to Be Executed Thursday. Did He Ever Really Have a Chance at Being Spared?

by Lauren Gill for ProPublica

February 4, 2019, 3:10 pm EST
Correction: Stories on Insanity Defense Included Factual Errors and Inaccurate Data

by ProPublica and

January 18, 2019, 8:03 pm EST