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This issue of The IRE Journal looks at reporting on the criminal justice system and its shortcomings. It includes tips on investigating incarcerations, reporting in the age of virality and […]
Working with data from the judicial system is notoriously challenging, from antiquated information practices to minimal if any obligation to comply with records requests. In this panel, representatives of two […]
Nursing homes and other longterm care facilities accounted for over 182,000 deaths during the pandemic – almost 40% of all U.S. deaths — and have long been plagued with concerns […]
The author’s original investigations of this case for the Houston Chronicle exposed for the first time the allegations of repeated sexual assault that a federal court employee had made in […]
“After Hours: Fostering Chaos” is a multi-part KING 5 investigation that uncovered a years-long pattern of Washington state child protection workers handling “hard to place” foster children by dangling basic […]
A Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that more than 130 judges broke the law while overseeing nearly 1,000 cases in every region of the U.S., in what amounts to a […]
Child sexual abuse is a major problem in Indian Country, yet federal government data suggests hundreds of cases may be falling through the cracks. A Howard Center for Investigative Journalism […]
A 32-year-old friend. A 17-year-old nephew. A 15-year-old daughter. A 39-year-old father and husband working to support his family. A 57-year-old mother and grandmother. A 21-year-old University of Utah football […]
Vulnerable accident victims across the nation have been exploited by a largely unregulated corner of the financial industry that each year persuades them to sell $1 billion in future legal settlement […]
Prosecution Declined was a year-long look at how rape cases are investigated and prosecuted in Louisville. Louisville police made arrests in only 15 percent of rapes, compared to a national […]
On the surface, this is an investigative podcast that examines a prominent, unsolved Civil Rights-era murder. Using the structural device of a whodunit, the show painstakingly reinvestigates the crime, and […]
Development Arrested is a deep investigation into the racist history and modern inequality of Mississippi’s system for prosecuting children as adults. It is told strikingly in real time as a […]
Producer Dan Slepian’s bold, intrepid, and relentless investigative reporting is what defines “13 Alibis,” Dateline NBC’s first podcast. The report achieved what nearly a dozen lawyers couldn’t for 20 years: […]
The Post found what one legal expert dubbed “profoundly troubling questions of judicial misconduct.” The newspaper has since 2015 been investigating Judge Martin Colin, who was married to a professional guardian […]
The original prosecutor in the Jeffrey Epstein case — Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer — mishandled his own case in 2006, evidently believing underage victims were prostitutes. One […]
South Carolina’s magistrates are the workhorses of the state’s court system, handling hundreds of thousands of misdemeanor cases annually. Most have never practiced law, and they are required to undergo […]
