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IRE Journal: Q2 2022

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 […]
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Secrets of the Death Chamber

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 […]
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Booked and Buried: Northwest Jails' Mounting Death Toll

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 […]
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Finding Hope

“Finding Hope” was a two-part investigative series about children who were failed by the Kansas foster care system and sent to prison for sex crimes.
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The Legacy of Guantanamo

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, […]
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A Solitary Death Sparks Prison Reform Push

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 […]
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Guarded Secrets

“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 […]
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GONE VIRAL: State, county health officials say private Aurora ICE prison outbreak reporting has been incomplete

“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.
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Matt Bevin’s Parting Pardons

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 […]
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It’s Your Time to Die

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 […]
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Wasted Minds

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. […]
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Northwest Jails' Mounting Death Toll

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 […]
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