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Catch and Release
California, using the term "realignment", chose to lessen the overcrowded prison population by paroling what corrections officials said were the least violent offenders on parole. Yet parole officers told KCRA that even sex offenders were now breaking the law - living with kids, near schools, even cutting off their GPS anklets - and facing no time in prison. Our investigation reviewed more than 8,000 parolees and their re-offenses over the last year. We also used internal sources to find that the state was preparing to review nearly ten thousand absconders in order to wipe them off the prison books.
Tags: Prison realignment; parole; sex offenders; parolees
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No. 9: The 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster
The 1968 Farmington Coal Mine Disaster prompted Congress to pass the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, the first law to set meaningful underground safety standards and fines for violations. Despite the importance of the tragedy, which took the lives of 78 men, neither federal nor the state government determined the cause of the disaster. The state did not produce a final report as was required by West Virginia law, and the federal government did not make public its final, inconclusive report until 1990. This book pieces the story together, documenting the dangerous conditions that plagued the No. 9 from 1935 through the first deadly disaster in 1954 that killed 16 men and up to the 1968 tragedy.
Tags: farmington coal mine; virginia; united states; safety; coal
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At The Devil's Table
The inner-workings of Columbia's Cali cocaine cartel, the world's biggest and richest crime syndicate, are opened to public view like few organized crime enterprises have ever been exposed in this book based on the story of Jorge Salcedo- a former chief of security for the cartel who now lives under witness protection somewhere in the United States.
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Finding Fernanda
The book sheds a light on the extremely politicized landscape of Guatemala's adoption industry, a multi-million dollar trade that was highly profitable and barely regulated. In this corrupt system, children have been stolen, sold, and placed as orphans in well-intentioned Western families since international adoption began there in the 1980s. Yet the governments of Guatemala and the US proved to be unwilling to regulate the illegal baby trade.
Tags: adoption; Guatemala; baby trade
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Other People's Wars
The book is the story of a close US ally's role in the wars and international politics of the decade after September 11, 2001. Nearly everything about New Zealand's post 9-11 military and intelligence roles was kept secret from the New Zealand public, while news was controlled through an intense military public relations campaign.
Tags: New Zealand; Iraq; Afghanistan; War on Terror
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The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
The New Kids is a narrative nonfiction book chronicling a year in the life at Brooklyn's International High School at Prospect Heights, a vibrant public school that teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees from around the world.
Tags: immigrants; teenagers; Brooklyn; immigration; high school
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A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea
The book tells how the government and BP responded to an emergency unlike anything encountered before in the history of petroleum engineering: a blowout in imle-deep water. The book chronicles the 87-day effort to cap the Macondo well after the explosion on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon.
Tags: Deepwater Horizon; BP; oil rig; drilling; Macondo well
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A Thousand Lives
The book provides the first history of Jim Jones' church in Jonestown, using 50,00 pages of newly released documents and nearly 1,000 audiotapes found in the colony after the massacre, as well as hundreds of hours of interviews with survivors, former members of People's Temple, and government sources.
Tags: People's Temple; Jim Jones; Guyana
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Terrorists in Love
The book profiles six radical Muslim men from Pakistan, Afhganistan and Saudi Arabia and reveals their mystical dreams and visions, sexual repression and crumbling family structures.
Tags: terrorism; Islam; Pakistan; Afghanistan; Saudi Arabia
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Sybil Exposed
The book is an investigative expose of Sybil, the 1970s-era bestseller book and TV movie about a woman who purportedly was possessed by sixteen separate selves. The investigation demonstrates that this story, though marketed as non-fiction, was mostly fiction.
Tags: Sybil; mulitple personality disorder; hoax