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Suspicious suicide raises questions about what the deceased knew

After spending some time in the Delaware County jail, Edwina King was approached by other female inmates, they needed her help. "According to a federal civil rights suit, employees of […]
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Former criminals caring for elderly and others, despite state law

"During the past six years, Minnesota has granted more than 15,000 waivers to people with criminal records seeking employment in nursing homes and other state-regulated care programs, state records show." […]
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CA vocational schools lack oversight

"An examination by Jennifer Gollan of The Bay Citizen found that over the last two years, the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education had not met many of its core […]
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Exam boards, teachers help students pass

Reporters for The Telegraph went undercover to reveal that exam boards are advising teachers on how to word questions and arrange exams so that students are more likely to obtain […]
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Presidential pardons have glaring racial disparities

"White criminals seeking presidential pardons over the past decade have been nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities, a ProPublica examination, co-published with The Washington Post, has found. […]
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"Racial gap" shows up in Milwaukee traffic stops

In a recent analysis of 46,000 traffic stops, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Ben Poston found that black resident drivers are "seven times as likely to be stopped by city police […]
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Double-Dipping in New Jersey

A New Jersey Watchdog investigation by Mark Lagerkvist reveals that more than 20 "investigators and supervisors who work for Attorney General Paula T. Dow and her Division of Criminal Justice" […]
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Who's policing the police in Florida?

"In a multi-day project, Anthony Cormier and Matthew Doig of The Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigate why law enforcement agencies around Florida employ officers despite cases of serious misconduct in their past, […]
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CA prison docs accused of malpractice still receive full pay

Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, found that "California prisons have paid doctors and mental health professionals accused of malpractice an estimated $8.7 million since 2006 to do no work at […]
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Sick-time pay in MN raises concerns

"MaryJo Webster of The Pioneer Press reported that the state of Minnesota paid about $57 million in unused sick time from January 2008 to June 2012 to departing workers. Now, […]
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