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Search results for "prison rape" ...
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Freedom for Anthony Caravella
This series is an investigation of the conviction of Anthony Caravella and potentially how it was flawed. He was convicted of rape and murder, without proper DNA testing and a biased prosecutor. Eventually, the investigation led to his release, but now he is faced with a number of challenges. Also, an investigation was launched on the prosecutor, who wrongly convicted four other people of murder.
Tags: court; judge; jury; genetic testing; Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA); prison; prisoner; law enforcement; confession
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Through the Cracks
The 1988 brutal rape and murder of a young mother and her daughter has left the child's grandmother, Phyllis Little, with 21 years of questions. In 2009, the NYPD announced they had arrested a man and charged him with the double-murder. Reporter Joshua Kors provides a detailed look at the lives of the murdered mother, as well as the man accused of killing her. Kors also describes the pain and guilt felt by Little for more than two decades.
Tags: crack; Bronx; low-cost housing; DNA; Five Percenters; Rikers Island prison; Bronx River Projects; West Farms
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Law and Disorder
This series revealed how criminals free on probation or parole in South Carolina kill, rob and rape all too often in a state where repeat offenders routinely are released into a system that is too under-manned and ill-equipped to maintain control.
Tags: probation agents; parole agents; criminals; repeat offenders; overcrowded prisons; probation violators; rehabilitation; prison inmates; jail; justice system; suspects; offenses; supervised release
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Genarlow Wilson
Genarlow Wilson, a promising scholar-athlete, was sent to prison for 10 years after receiving oral sex from a 15 year-old when he was 17. In court "everyone, including the girl and the prosecution, agreed she initiated the act." However due to an old law the act was a felony.
Tags: athlete; sexual intercourse; oral sex; minors; felony; misdemeanor; Genarlow Wilson; statutory rape;
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Taking the Cuffs off at Carswell
Fort Worth Weekly reporter Betty Brink has been covering medical and sexual abuse of female inmates at Carswell Federal Medical Center, in Texas, since 1999. As a result of her coverage, and his own investigation, a retired judge, Ross Sears is asking for a Congressional investihgation into the deadly conditions at "the only prison hospital in the country for mentally or chronicallly ill or dying women who have been convicted of a federal crime."
Tags: medical negligence; sexual abuse; Carswell Federal Mediacal Center; medical records; Bureau of Prisons; FOI requests; U.S. Office of Special Counsel; Dr. Roger Guthrie; Ross Sears; retaliation; compassionate release; John Peter Smith Hospital; Tarrant County Medical Examiner; autopsies; prison deaths; women inmates; femaile prisoners; Baylor Regional Transplant Institute; Huguley Memorial Medical Center; brain damage; whistleblower complaints; medical malpractice; sentinel event; rape;
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Sexual abuse behind bars
The Detroit News exposed years of sexual abuse of female inmates by male prison guards in Michigan. Despite a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in 1999, abuse rates increased and offenders went unpunished. The reporters discovered inmate suicides and guards who killed themselves rather than face accusations of abuse. The story also showed that a former governor had blocked outside investigations of sexual abuse in prisons. After publication, legislators convened hearings and male guards were phased out of women's prisons.
Tags: FOI; prison; sexual abuse; rape; Michigan Department of Corrections; prison guards; jail; penitentiary; suicide
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15 days of anguish: The inside story of Arizona's prison standoff
This narrative recounts the nation's longest prison hostage standoff, a 15-day crisis at an Arizona prison. The story was reconstructed from Republic interviews and from 50 hours of taped negotiations between inmates and negotiators, official debriefings of corrections officers, investigative reports, inmate files, command logs and other public records. The Republic obtained the records only after much wrangling with the Department of Corrections and the Governor's office. After the Republic published stories on the standoff based on off-the-record sources, a county prosecutor's office rejected the Governor's office arguments to withhold the information and released the records. The story revealed how gross security flaws, mismanagement, and poor judgment led to the incident in which two women were raped.
Tags: prison standoff; rape; prisoners; public records
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Legacy of Wrongful Convictions
These stories systematically examined every DNA and death penalty exoneration in the country, a total of more than 250 cases in which a crime was left unsolved by an inmates exoneration and release from prison. The series found that, in many cases, searching anew for the real culprit would have been a simple task. Often, however, that simple step was not taken by law enforcement.
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Iron Bars do not a Safe Place Make
This entry comprises two stories, the first of which reports on a brutal rape of a female inmate by a guard that allegedly occurred at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas. Her history and her allegations of what occurred in the prison are all a prominent part of the story as is law enforcement's failure to adequately look in to the problem.
Tags: rape; jail; molestation; guards
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Prisoners of Sex; Female Trouble
These two stories brings to light incidents of rape and sexual abuse of teenage girls in a juvenile correction center. This corretion center, The Youthful Offender System was an innovative program, an alternative to adult prison for adolescents. As the reporter found out, the female inmates were sexually abused by the male correction officers. The follow up story reports the case against the officer who was on trial for raping one of the inmates.
Tags: rape; juvenile correction centers; youthful offender system; sexual assault