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Sheriff Lee Baca & L.A. City Jails
"These stories provide a penetrating look at conditions inside the nation's largest county jail system and show how the violence within cannot be contained. With the jails seriously overcrowded by felony defendants awaiting trial, 150,000 less serious offenders have been released since 2002 after serving fractions of their sentences."
Tags: Castaic; violence; riots; fights; correctional facility; inmate
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New Visions of Vine Street
Investigation of how city leaders and concerned citizens are trying to revitalize the urban core of Cincinnati, Ohio. The investigation began in 2001 following race riots in Cincinnati. An hourlong documentary aired in 2001 sparked changes and initiatives to revitalize Vine Street. This new documentary shows what has happened in the past five years.
Tags: race riots; urban renewal; Ohio; Cincinnati;
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On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of WWII
This book investigates the longest U.S. Army court-martial of WWII, in which 43 African-American soldiers were charged with rioting and 28 were convicted. The author reveals that an investigation done before the trial contradicts most of the testimony given during the court-martial.
Tags: Army; federal government; Defense; military; Leon Jaworski; courts; trial; World War Two
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The Troubles at King/ Drew
The reporters began with a basic analysis of all the hospitals in the Los Angeles County public hospital system. They found that the most severe problems and violations were happening at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, formed after the 1965 Watts riots to serve the poor of southern Los Angeles. The problems ranged from underfunding to staff misdiagnoses, accidental patient deaths, and racist politics on the hospital's Board of Supervisors. The reporters also interviewed healthcare experts and published six detailed possible solutions to the problems facing the hospital.
Tags: healthcare; doctors; pathologist; Medical Board of California; American Medical Association; medical malpractice; civil rights
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Terror Behind Bars
Tipped off by a riot at the Lompoc jail, the Santa Barbara News Press pieces together a six-year old gruesome murder of a prison guard therein. From the questionnaire, "the investigation reveals an alleged plot by radical Islamic prisoners - including one of t he men behind the World Trade Center bombing in 1993- who goaded a mentally challenged inmate into attacking. Though the Bureau of Prisons assured the slain guard, Scott Williams' family of swift justice, its been eight years and Scott's wife Kristy is still attending court hearings.
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Riot baby
Ten years after the Rodney King scandal and the subsequent riots in South Central Los Angeles, reporter Daniel Voll examines the situation in that area of the Californian metropolis. He does it by depicting the lifestyle of Jelani Stewart, who was born in the same days the riots took place. Voll writes in his initial paragraph: "(...) the people are still poor, there's not enough work, and the gang violence is bad and getting worse."
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Locked Down: Prison cutbacks leave inmates hopeless
New York's Governor George Pataki has eliminated many prison programs that were originally put into place after a massive prison riot almost 30 years ago. It's much more difficult for prisoners to get parole in New York now because the state receives money that's directly proportionate to the number of people imprisoned (because of the Violent Criminal Incarceration Act, passed by Congress in 1995).
Tags: prisons; prisoners; inmates; parole; Violent Criminal Incarceration Act; George Pataki; New York; Charles Hamilton; cut backs; state funding; Attica; Green Haven Correctional Institute; truth in sentencing
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Tulsa's Shame
The Nation tells the story of the survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, who have been trying to monetary reparations for years. The story is as much about the 100 or so survivors as it is about racism in Oklahoma.
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2002 IRE National Conference Show and Tell Tape #3
1) Valeri Williams (WFAA-Dallas/Fort Worth) WFAA-TV follows up its 2000 IRE Awards entry with this return investigation into Fort Worth's John Peter Smith Hospital. Reporter Williams and producer Schucker continued their investigation, focusing on Dr. Lydia Grotti and her connection to suspicious and overlooked deaths in the emergency room. As a result of WFAA-TV's investigation the Texas Department of Health began conducting its own investigation and discovered additional deaths that took place in the ER. The county district attorney's office called in a special prosecutor to examine a total of eight suspicious deaths in connection with Dr. Grotti at the hospital. 2) Robb Leer (KSTP-Minnesota) An investigation reveals that state adoption laws have loopholes that allow mothers of out of wedlock children to give the babies up for adoption without the father ever knowing. 3) Larry Posner (Inside Edition) An investigation reveals that a Florida man claiming to suffer from a rare conversion disorder that makes him act like a child is actually defrauding the state. 4) Jim Strickland (WSB-Atlanta) An area smoke detector salesman plays off the fears of senior citizens and sells them alarms at an inflated cost. 5) Larry Posner (Inside Edition) An investigation reveals that insurance companies can sell nearly-destroyed cars as though they weren't damaged. The cars are then repaired and end up in the hands of drivers who don't know they're driving dangerous vehicles. 6) Laure Quinlivan (WCPO-Cincinnati) A clip from the hour-long Visions of Vine street documentary on Cincinnati's deteriorating urban core. WCPO-TV tells the story of "Vine Street, the crumbling centerpiece of a neighborhood called Over the Rhine, ground zero for the April race riots that attracted national media attention." 7) (WTTG-District of Columbia) The city's DMV routinely charges two drivers for the same parking ticket or issues illegitimate tickets. The system is so bad that one lawyer spends all his time fighting parking tickets. 8) Vic Lee (KRON-San Francisco) An investigation reveals its not hard for employees at the San Francisco airport to sneak in knives. 9) (CBS 11-Dallas) Workers at a U.S. Post Office in Dallas are shown stealing from the mail. 10) (CBS 11-Dallas) Coverage of a fony charity called Kid Wish USA. The scam took money from donors who thought they were giving to dying children.
Tags: TAPE; San Francisco; conference; no transcripts; IRE
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A question of justice: A look inside Cincinnati's police division
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports on police shootings and bad behavior by officers. The investigation is based on the analysis of a database of about 5,500 use-of-force records. The series resulted from the coverage of the April 2001 Cincinnati riots for "alleged insensitivity and injustice to blacks," triggered by the shooting of an unarmed African American. The investigative team reveals that, before this case, 14 other blacks have been shot by the city police. An examination of hundreds of citizens' complaints from 1997 to 2000 discovers that police officers have been routinely exonerated of misconduct nine times out of ten. The follow-up stories focus on the "summer of violence," which followed the April riots, and during which 107 police shootings were registered.
Tags: FOI requests; minorities; racial violence; African Americans; blacks; crime; drugs