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Momentum to end rape in prison losing steam
Wikimedia Commons Despite the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003, support for prisoner rights – particularly regarding sexual abuse of transgender inmates – and attempts to reform the...
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Thirsty cotton crops as much a part of water crisis as nature
Wikimedia Commons Water scarcity in the West is as much man-made as it is an effect of climate change, according to a ProPublica examination of federal crop subsidies that encourage farmers to use more...
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No big bankers yet held accountable for 2008 financial crash crimes
Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder. Ryan J. Reilly for Flickr. Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder’s 90-day deadline for federal prosecutors to determine whether big-bank executives could be criminally...
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Weak biolab oversight raises major public safety concerns
Wikimedia Commons Lab mistakes and safety violations in secretive biological research laboratories nationwide are putting the public at risk, shows a USA TODAY Network investigation. From the story:...
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Supreme Court could take political power from cities
United States Supreme Court building. Wikimedia Commons. A lawsuit filed by conservatives in Texas accepted for consideration by the Supreme Court aims to redefine Congressional districts by the number...
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How vet addiction ripples through a community
Wikimedia Commons. In January, the Center for Investigative Reporting disclosed skyrocketing opiate prescriptions a the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Tomah, Wisc. quintupled between...
View ArticleScituate house – repeatedly rebuilt with taxpayer help – gets $180,000 more
A vacation home damaged at least 10 times by Atlantic storms will be elevated with money from a federal grant for the second time in a dozen years – this time for $180,000 - town records show. The 48...
View ArticleHealey backs new law protecting homeowners from tax lien sales
Representatives from Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Maura Healey's office testified today in favor of legislation meant to protect elderly and disabled residents who are struggling to pay past-due...
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Nuclear labs fined for security violations
Wikimedia Commons The Center for Public Integrity reports that two nuclear weapons labs were fined nearly $1 million after they were found to have mishandled classified information by disclosing it in...
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Almost 400 fatal police shootings have already occurred in 2015
Pixabay. A database compiled by The Washington Post shows 385 instances of fatal police shootings in the first five months of 2015. In 80 percent of cases, victims were armed and dangerous. But 62...
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NSA expanding spying, say new Snowden documents
Edward Snowden. Wikimedia Commons New documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to The New York Times and ProPublica show the Obama administration secretly...
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Suicide rates of female veterans alarmingly high
Wikimedia Commons. Information from a new government study shows female military veterans commit suicide at a much higher rate than women as a whole, reports the Los Angeles Times. Factors behind the...
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Searching for the Red Cross’s $500 Million Haiti relief funds
Wikimedia Commons After Haiti was devastated by an earthquake in 2010, the American Red Cross raised nearly half a billion dollars in relief efforts. But now, five years later, an NPR and ProPublica...
View ArticleHow federally subsidized flood insurance can artificially increase the value...
It's a central question as sea levels rise, storms become more intense, and coastal property damage skyrockets: Why do people keep rebuilding along the coast? A recent study led by University of...
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Maine legislators close the door on open meetings – editor pushes through
Wikimedia Commons. In investigating how Maine offiicials get around open meeting laws, John Christie, editor in chief at the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, crashed a meeting of the...
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A look inside North Dakota’s deathly oil fields
Reveal News looks into work conditions at the Bakken oil and gas fields, calling the shale oil boom a “serial killer” – with a worker dying, on average, every six week in an accident. Since 2006, 74...
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The costs of shooting at moving vehicles
Wikimedia Commons. A Philadelphia Inquirer analysis of vehicle shootings – based on police department Internal Affairs documents and interviews with attorneys, police, and community member – finds...
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Inside one of the largest mental health institutions in the country – a jail
Flickr In a sprawling first-person report from inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail, The Atlantic’s associate editor Matt Ford, shows how the mentally ill have come to make up a third of the mammoth...
View ArticleSmall Derailment Fuels Bigger Fears around Grafton Propane Facility
A train run by the Grafton and Upton Railroad derailed in the town of Grafton, Mass. on Tuesday night while crossing through the town’s center. The derailment came just minutes before a town meeting...
View ArticlePrisoners in solitary confinement released straight to the street
Last year, over 10,000 prisoners were released from solitary confinement and sent directly back out into the world, reports The Marshall Project. Many inmates struggle with mental disorders that may...
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