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Locked up
A USA TODAY investigation found that the U.S. Justice Department was using its legal authority to decide who gets locked up for how long in ways that reward the guilty and punish the innocent. Our examination found that government lawyers were trying to keep dozens of men who they conceded were “legally innocent” imprisoned anyway. We found that the Justice Department had kept accused sexual predators locked up for years past the end of their prison sentences on the basis of faulty psychological assessments. And exposed a brazen pay-to-snitch enterprise that illustrated how the government rewards its informants — often hardened criminals — with shorter prison sentences.
Tags: U.S. Justice Department; lawyers; sexual predators; criminals; prison sentences
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Our Youngest Killers: Juveniles Serving Life w/o Parole in Massachusetts
15 years after the Massachusetts Legislature passed one of the harshest juvenile murderer sentencing laws in the country, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) revealed, for the first time, serious disparities in the way juvenile killers have been punished under the law.
Tags: Massachusetts; New England Center for Investigative Reporting; Juvenile Killers; Murder
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Failure to Aid
Over the last year, I spent a lot of time researching and reporting on stories pertaining to the mental health treatment of people in prison. More specifically, I have successfully fought to gain access to public records in order to tell the story of Tony Lester. Tony was a young man who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He committed an assault and was sentenced to serve time at the Arizona State Prison in Tucson. Tragically, Tony committed suicide while in prison. Staff in the prison failed to render aid when they discovered him in his cell bleeding. My investigation not only revealed that he was improperly placed in with the general population against a judge's order and a court-ordered psychiatrist order...but he was also mistakenly given razors as part of a hygiene kit.
Tags: prison; paranoid schizophrenia; suicide; mental health
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Young Kids, Hard Time
A documentary on the lives of convicted juveniles - some as young as 12 - serving decades in the adult correctional system.
Tags: juvenile; crime; adult; correctional; system; sentencing; prison
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Our Youngest Killers
Fifteen years after the Massachusetts Legislature passed one of the harshest juvenile murderer sentencing laws in the country, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting revealed serious disparities in the way juvenile killers have been punished under the law.
Tags: juvenile killers; murder; disparity
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Baumgartner
At the start of 2011, the best known and probably most respected judge in Knoxville, Tenn., was Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner, founder of Knox County's successful Drug Court and the judge who recently had presided over trials involving the most shocking crime in local memory, the carjacking, torture and murder of a young couple named Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. The trials of four suspects led to a death sentence, two life sentences and one very long prison term. But soon after the new year began, Baumgartner took an abrupt leave of absence, ostensible for health reasons.
Tags: judge; Knoxville; trials; criminal court
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Our Youngest Killers: Juveniles Serving Life w/o Parole in Massachusetts
An investigation into the incarcerations of Massachusetts teens sentenced to life in prison reveals parole reveal inequities in the 1996 law.
Tags: Parole; Life Sentenve; Juvenile
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Our Youngest Killers: Juveniles Serving Life Without Parole in Massachusetts
Fifteen years after the Massachusetts Legislature passed one of the harshest juvenile murder sentencing laws in the country, a New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) investigation revealed, for the first time, serious disparities in the way juvenile killers have been punished under the law. The article investigates 60 juvenile murder cases in Massachusetts.
Tags: juvenile; crime; massachusetts; court; legal system; sentence; parole
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Army slow to act as crime-lab worker falsified, botched tests
The reporters undertook a year-long inquiry into every facet of the often-opaque military justice system. Through more than two dozen stories, the series closely examined military criminal investigations, lab testing, trials, sentences and appeals.
Tags: military justice system; fabricated results; investigation; falsified tests;
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Hell Hole
The AZ Department of Corrections stuck a psychotic prisoner on the cusp of being released into a single person cell with a first-degree killer serving a lengthy sentence. The result: The killer mutilated and murdered the seriously mentally ill man, who was serving a short sentence for climbing up a power pole during an electrical storm.
Tags: Prison; Mentally Ill