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IRE Feed 2 "Award Finalist"
A compilation of 11 stories. 1.) "Airport Security" WCPO, Cincinnati, No criminal background checks for airport workers and other violations of security rules. 2.) "Too Young to Die" KCBS, Los Angeles, The National Cancer Institute stopped recommending that women get mammograms, causing uninsured women to die early deaths. 3.) "Ford Height Four" WMAQ, Chicago, Were four black men wrongly convicted of robbery, rape, and murder, because police withheld information and a key witness lied? A killer confesses. 4.) "Sexual Predators" WLTV, Jacksonville, A law drops some sexual predators from the public list. 5.) "Shooters" WAGA, Atlanta, Convenience stores selling shooters, a brown bag full of everything you need to smoke crack, but the crack. 6.) "Cleaner Gasoline" KGO, San Francisco, The Air Resources Board threw out data that shows a news gas could make your car catch fire. 7.) "The Business of Charity" WRAL, Raleigh, Sales of donated clothes by non-profit organizations equals big money. 8.) "Stolen Dreams" News 12 Long Island, Salesmen stealing pension and retirement dreams. 9.) "Chemical Reaction" WXYZ, Detroit, Did General Motors protect it's workers from deadly and unhealthy chemicals? 10.) "Conspiracy of Silence" CBC, Alberta, Workers denied their workers compensation. 11.) "Nursing Homes: Care and Crisis" WDIV, Detroit, Bed sores, neglect and more.
Tags: TAPE; WCPO; KCBS; WMAQ; WLTV; WAGA; KGO; WRAL; News 12 Long Island; WXYZ; CBC; WDIV.
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A Promise of Justice
A Promise of Justice investigates a miscarriage of justice in Illinois that put four innocent men in jail. The book discloses the police rush to judgment, repeated acts of prosecutorial misconduct and defense ineptitude, and the culture of racism that permeated the south suburban Cook County courts.
Tags: Book; Ford Heights Four; Crime
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Ford Heights Four
WMAQ-TV's investigative team studies the pleas of innocence from four men who were convicted of gang rape and murder in the late 1970's. For 18 years, the four had plead their innocence to police, prosecutors, judges and juries. In trial after retrial, they'd been found guilty. With the aid of a Northwestern University professor and three of his students, WMAQ found an 18-year-old police report, long buried, that both pointed to the four's innocence and targeted the real killers. The investigation also revealed an audio tape confession of the actual triggerman.
Tags: TRANSCRIPT criminal justice wrongful convictions DNA testing (no tape)