http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Extra! Extra! is your guide to the latest investigative work. Send comments and suggestions to extraextra@ire.org. en-us support@ire.org 2008-05-01T10:35:01-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_05.html An investigative narrative by Justin Fenton of The Baltimore Sun explores the life and crimes of Cindy McKay who "was convicted in April 2008 of secretly stealing thousands of dollars from her boyfriend and stabbing him to death before his... 2236@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-05-01T10:35:01-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_04.html A two-week series by The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, explores a human trafficking and prostitution ring that flourished in the small towns of eastern Iowa. "By poring over hundreds of court records and reports, and through more than two... 2228@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-04-24T11:46:08-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_04.html Brendan Smith of the Washington City Paper reports on two suicides in the Washington D.C. jail that revealed widespread misconduct and inadequate mental-health monitoring by corrections personnel. For ten months, the Director of the Department of Corrections fought a FOIA... 2227@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-04-21T11:02:38-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_04.html Dan Eggen and Josh White of The Washington Post report on the recently declassified 2003 Justice Department memo that was responsible for creating the "legal foundation for the Defense Department's use of aggressive interrogation practices" in the run up to... 2213@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Government (federal/state/local) 2008-04-03T10:30:27-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_03.html Fugitives can flee and don't have to hide, an investigation by Joe Mahr of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch showed. Mahr's three-day series reported that hundreds of thousands of felony arrest warrants from across the nation are not entered into the... 2209@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-03-12T09:46:21-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_03.html Karyn Spencer of the Omaha World-Herald discovered Nebraska has no state oversight and few standards to ensure quality death investigations by coroners or law enforcement. The lack of oversight and standards lead to murder cases remaining unsolved, coroners skipping autopsies... 2208@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-03-11T13:22:45-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_03.html The San Antonio Express-News conducted a three-month study of the Tactical Response Unit of the San Antonio Police Department, a unit created to reduce violent crime. "The unit used force to subdue only three of almost 1,000 Anglo suspects it... 2207@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-03-10T15:37:37-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_03.html Eric Nalder, Daniel Lathrop and Lewis Kamb of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer found in a three-part investigation that Seattle police's use of the "obstructing a public officer" charge leads to arrests of African Americans at a rate eight times higher than... 2201@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-03-07T12:40:02-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_03.html Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne and other KIRO-Seattle investigators delved into the 18-year-old murder of two Seattle attorneys. They found that King County detectives were questioning Robert "Spider" Gaines, a former University of Washington football star, about his connection to the... 2194@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-03-06T15:01:39-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_02.html An investigation by Abbie Boudreau and Scott Zamost of CNN revealed that the former head of one of America's largest prison systems ran a Mafia-like operation riddled with corruption. In an exclusive interview before he stepped down, James McDonough, secretary... 2193@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-02-20T14:09:51-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_02.html Eric Longabardi of ERSNews.com is reporting that an Erin Finn, whose "resume runs the gamut from model to escort, house sitter, and Internet tech geek" is likely to be the lead witness for the federal wiretapping and racketeering case against... 2187@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-02-07T12:14:44-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_02.html FRONTLINE revisits a January 2003 investigation of McWane, Inc., a pipe foundry company which proved to be "the most dangerous company in an inherently dangerous business." In A Dangerous Business Revisited, Lowell Bergman looks at what happened since the original... 2186@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Broadcast 2008-02-07T11:55:17-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_02.html A yearlong investigation by Geoff Dutton and Mike Wagner of The Columbus Dispatch found that Ohio’s DNA testing program for inmates seeking to prove their innocence is so flawed that police and courts routinely discard evidence after trials. The five-day... 2178@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-02-01T10:51:36-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_01.html Jason Riley of The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.) found that many inmates granted "shock probation" were being re-incarcerated in Jefferson County, Ky. The program releases offenders after only one to six months of their sentence and was developed for "first-time, nonviolent... 2171@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-01-24T12:46:14-06:00 http://www.ire.org/extraextra/archives/2008_01.html A report by Christine Young of the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, NY, in a special eight-page supplement and online multi-media presentation, suggests strongly that a New York City man who is borderline mentally retarded was wrongfully convicted of murder in... 2166@http://www.ire.org/extraextra/ Justice (courts/crime/law) 2008-01-16T18:05:09-06:00