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Friday, September 05, 2008 6:03 AM

Problems with Probation and Parole

In an outstanding series, "Law and Disorder," Doug Pardue and Glenn Smith of The Post and Courier examine South Carolina's broken probation and parole system. They engage, and probably enrage, readers by describing horrific crimes committed by repeat
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 5:26 AM

Broken Trusts

In January we highlighted a Boston Globe story, "Courts Strip Elders of Their Independence," produced by eight Northeastern University students overseen by journalism professor Walter V. Robinson. Five of Robinson's students have created another
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:33 AM

Hurricane Warning

As Hurricane Gustav strengthens and heads toward the Gulf of Mexico, "New Orleans Repeating Deadly Levee Mistakes" by AP's Cain Burdeau raises alarming issues. Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina:
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Monday, August 25, 2008 6:09 AM

Failing the Mentally Ill

"Broken Trust" by Eileen Kelley and Dan Horn of The Cincinnati Enquirer shows how city and state inspection systems designed to protect mentally ill nursing home residents broke down at two facilities. Cincinnati police Officer Aaron Layton was hunting
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:50 AM

Empty Classrooms

In 2001-2005, Milwaukee Public Schools spent $102 million building new classrooms, science labs and libraries to revamp neighborhood schools and thus reduce the costs of busing by convincing parents to choose nearby schools. In an excellent series, "Subtraction
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:18 AM

Asking Tough Questions

On July 17 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 11-year-old Lakeisha White was struck and killed by an unmarked patrol car driven by Sheriff’s Detective Ron Killings. Local police said it appears that Lakeisha darted out in front of Killings, but on August 3 Daily
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Monday, August 18, 2008 6:07 AM

Mortgage Fraud

On August 12 we featured a Miami Herald investigation into Medicare fraud in South Florida. Today we'd like to highlight another Miami Herald series, "Borrowers Betrayed," on how Florida became the national leader in mortgage fraud. The series, written
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:39 AM

Medicare Fraud

A six-month Miami Herald investigation has found rampant Medicare fraud in South Florida. A wide-ranging series of reports by Jay Weaver shows that corruption flourishes while regulators do little to stop it. Consider this statistic: In 2005, South Florida
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:02 AM

The Poisons Around Us

The Center for Public Integrity has recently released two great investigations that show how consumers and workers are being exposed to toxic hazards. "Perils of the New Pesticidies" by M.B. Pell and Jim Morris reveals that the number of reported human
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Monday, August 04, 2008 5:53 AM

Diploma Mill

Two years ago Bill Morlin of The Spokesman-Review broke a major story about a diploma mill ring based in Spokane. Morlin stayed on the story as a federal task force investigated the ring and eight members pleaded guilty to federal crimes. But Justice
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Friday, July 18, 2008 6:54 AM

Treatment or Abuse?

In Boston Magazine's "The Shocking Truth," Paul Kix does a masterful job of investigating the use of electro-shock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a Massachusetts home for mentally handicapped and behaviorally impaired youth. The
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:22 AM

Where's the Sheriff?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County boasts that he's the "toughest sheriff in America." Two years ago he began a highly publicized crackdown on illegal immigration, and last month he announced that deputies had booked their 1,000th suspected
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:32 AM

Mid-East Media War

Craig Whitlock of The Washington Post has written a revealing two-part series on the Mid-East media campaigns of the U.S. government and al-Qaeda. It's fascinating to compare the campaigns' structures and their results. The centerpiece of Washington's
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Monday, June 30, 2008 6:20 AM

Covert Action

Seymour Hersh has a long history of helping break important stories: the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the C.I.A.'s illegal spying against Americans, the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and many more. In the July 7 New Yorker, Hersh returns with another
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Friday, June 27, 2008 6:11 AM

Mortgage Mess

Black Americans are much more likely than whites to get stuck paying high interest rates for their mortgages than whites, according to a comprehensive investigation by Aliza Appelbaum and Alden K. Loury of The Chicago Reporter. Their "An Equal Opportunity
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