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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 […]
In the first story of the series, “They executed people for the state of South Carolina. For some, it nearly destroyed them,” The State revealed that the closer execution workers […]
Since 2008, at least 306 people across the Northwest have died after being taken to a county jail. Until now, that number was unknown, in part because Oregon and Washington […]
This NPR series on waste and dysfunction at the U.S. prison and military court at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the total failure there of the American legal and judicial systems, […]
Our coverage of the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman being held on Riker’s Island revealed the 27-year-old was being held in solitary confinement when her lifeless body was […]
“Guarded Secrets” was a 6,000-word cover story investigating Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, Vermont’s only prison for women. The story brought to light allegations of sexual misconduct against current and former […]
“Gone Viral” is about the relationship between a private federal detention center and how it failed to follow guidelines requiring it to notify local health officials about disease outbreaks.
In his frenzied final days in office, Gov. Matt Bevin signed a flurry of pardons and commutations for more than 650 inmates. The Courier Journal was the first to report […]
On April 15, 2018, a killing spree inside a rural maximum-security prison in South Carolina left seven inmates dead and dozens more severely wounded. It marked America’s deadliest prison violence […]
With more than 95,000 inmates languishing in Florida prisons, the nation’s third largest corrections system offers virtually no meaningful education, despite overwhelming evidence that it’s the strongest antidote to recidivism. […]
Since 2008, at least 306 people across the Northwest have died after being taken to a county jail. Until now, that number was unknown, in part because Oregon and Washington […]
