The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "domestic spending" ...
-
"Domestic Silence"
Domestic violence is out of control in Ohio. This investigative report finds that men "charged with domestic violence" multiple times in multiple years only served an "average of two weeks" behind bars. Since 2000, the request for restraining orders has doubled in the state of Ohio. Reporters also found that the state spends $1 billion a year in "medical and social services" to pay for domestic violence.
Tags: domestic violence; restraining orders; civil-protection order; Franklin County; abuse; Marian Harris; Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence; Ohio Domestic Violence Network
-
Federal Overhaul
The Journal reports that "in thousands of ways -- some large, many small -- the government has changed. Like corporate America, federal agencies have been forced to become more cost-conscious and more efficient. And Americans are feeling the consequences."
Tags: budget cutbacks; government employees; budget deficit; politics; defense spending; IRS; tax increases; Clinton; domestic spending
-
Debt to Society: The Real Price of Prisons
A Mother Jones interactive project chronicles and quantifies "the explosive growth of America's inmate population." The online series depicts the economic and social costs of prisons, and includes a database on states' prison population and prison spending. The first part explains why America became the world's leading jailer, and looks at the paradoxical growth of the incarceration rate over the past decades when the crime rate was declining. The reporters find that "the soaring number of nonviolent drug offenders" and increases in sentencing are behind the expansion of prisons. The second part discovers that "prisons are rife with infectious illnesses - and threaten to spread them to the public." The third story examines the influence of jail sentences on inmates' inclination to violence after being released. The fourth part looks at the social costs for children who have a parent behind bars. The fifth article explains various alternatives for society to respond to lawbreakers without locking them up. The sixth part reveals that spending on a domestic anti-drug war is ineffective. The seventh article finds that "mass incarceration comes at a moral cost to every American."
Tags: corrections; law enforcement; crime; racial disparity; arrests; the Twin Towers Correctional Facility; rape; HIV; mental health; AIDS; families; drugs; courts; judges; CAR; database mapping project
-
Weapons of Mass Confusion: How pork trumps preparedness in the fight against terrorism
The 1995 sarin gas attack that killed 12 people and injured 5,000 others on a Tokyo subway alerted U.S. officials to the potential for biological and chemical terrorism on U.S. soil. In 1996, Congress passed the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996, which authorized spending billions to prepare local officials for attacks and to create specialized military response teams. Now, five years after the law was passed, Green writes, pork-barrel politics has prevented the anti-terrorism effort from fulfilling its duties. "The billions of dollars spent to prepare for an attack has only created an expensive and uncoordinated mess...In the end, more than 40 agencies, overseen by a dozen congressional committees, received a role in the nation's terrorism defense plan. The waste was enormous...The (law) spawned 90 different programs for the single purpose of training local officials. Today they compete just to find clients." After 3 years and $137 million, the U.S. Army National Guard team that was designated to respond to terrorist attacks, has not yet been certified by the Defense Department as ready for duty.
Tags: Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act; Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Act; domestic terrorism; Aum Shinrikyo cult; Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team; chemical weapons; biological weapons; pork barrel politics; U.S. Army National Guard
-
No title (id: 12928)
In California, you can dismiss a conviction for wife beating by merely spending a weekend at the Holiday Inn attending a seminar. ABC News investigates how the courts deal with men who beat women. Even when court-ordered programs for abusive men are well run and have a record of success, nothing happens to those who don't show up. And what's worse, many judges don't seem to care, even when the no-show rate approaches 75 percent. (Feb. 2, 1995)
Tags: Ross Page Koch Rummel Domestic violence Contest entry Criminal justice 12pgs
-
President of Bank is Jailed
The Sun Herald reports that "Bank president Joseph E. Baran is jailed on a contempt of court violation stemming from a demestic violence incident involving hes estranged wife. Baran is to spend five nights in jail. During an investigation by the Sun Herald, it si discovered that Baran had been convicted of felony theft in the past, but was still allowed to maintain a job as a bank president. Because of the reporting, we believe Baran was eventually dismissed as the bank officer."
Tags: domestic abuse; business; conflict of interest; divorce
-
No title (id: 10701)
Time Magazine looks into the rise in reported cases of domestic violence in military families. Time finds spousal abuse is occurring in one of every three Army families each year--double the civilian rate. Report prodded Congress to boost spending for the Pentagon's domestic-abuse prevention program, 1994.