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Prolific Pardoner? Obama Grants Clemency to 22 Prisoners This Week, But Has...
by Annie WaldmanPresident Obama commuted the sentences of 22 people on Tuesday, doubling the number of commutations he has granted during his administration in just one day. The decision follows a...
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Level 14
by Joaquin SapienProPublicaLevel 14Share on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateLevel 14How a home for troubled children came undone and what it means for California’s chance at reform.by Joaquin...
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Level 14: Inside One of California’s Most Dangerous Juvenile Homes
ProPublicaLevel 14Share on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateLevel 14: Inside One of California’s Most Dangerous Juvenile Homesby Carrie Ching, special to ProPublicaIllustrations by Marina LuzApril...
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Investigative Journalism, Illustrated: A Q&A With Level 14 Creators
by Amanda ZamoraThis piece was co-published with Narratively.Level 14 takes us inside California's broken group home system through the eyes of Sule Anibaba. Sule worked as a counselor for nearly five...
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NYC Public Housing: Fixing a Leak with a Bucket
by Marian WangAt Maria Santana’s public housing apartment on New York’s Upper West Side, dirty, black water has periodically poured in from the walls, from the pipes, from the radiator. She says the...
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Warren Buffett’s Mobile Home Empire and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.2em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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How We Reported ‘Level 14’
by Joaquin SapienThe reporting for "Level 14: How a home for troubled children came undone and what it means for California's chance at reform" took place over the course of several months beginning...
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Podcast: Reporting the How and Why After a Disaster
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } When a California group home for troubled children collapsed in June 2013 amid allegations that an 11-year-old had been raped, much of the...
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Mark Cuban’s Advice a ‘Recipe For Making All Of Us Sick,’ Expert Says
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog.Last week, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caused quite a stir on Twitter by suggesting that people, if they could afford it, get...
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Alabama Bill Would Increase Workers’ Comp Benefits for Amputees
by Michael GrabellAlabama lawmakers have introduced a bill that would nearly triple the maximum compensation for workers who suffer amputations on the job.The bill, filed April 2, comes less than a...
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Upon Further Review: Inside the Police Failure to Stop Darren Sharper’s Rape...
by T. Christian Miller and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, and Ramon Antonio Vargas and John Simerman, The New Orleans Advocate, This story was co-published with the New Orleans Advocate and Sports...
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ProPublica Investigated NFL Star Darren Sharper’s Rape Spree. Ask Us Anything.
by Terry Parris Jr.NFL star and record-breaking safety Darren Sharper helped the New Orleans Saints to their first — and only — Super Bowl win in 2010. Five years later, Sharper stood in a Los Angeles...
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Decades Later, a Routine Police Record Hangs Over Patz Murder Trial
by Joe SextonThe form is called a DD5 – the formal write-up of investigative work done by detectives pursuing a criminal case. In the summer of 1979, Detective Jack Caracola was working the Etan Patz...
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Sharper’s Plea Includes Lifetime Probation, No Alcohol, Penile Device
by T. Christian MillerDarren Sharper, former NFL football player and New Orleans Saints safety, has agreed to plead guilty or no contest to raping or attempting to rape nine women in four states. It...
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For Darren Sharper, a Place in Prison. But in Hall of Fame, Too?
by Ryan GabrielsonDarren Sharper has secured his place in prison over the next nine years for raping women across the U.S. It now remains to be seen whether the former National Football League star...
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How Wall Street Captured Washington and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda Zamora h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Podcast: The Failures Behind a Retracted Campus Rape Story
by Nicole Collins Bronzan .player_box { display: none; } In November, Rolling Stone’s investigative piece “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely,...
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Health Data Breaches Sow Confusion, Frustration
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with USA Today.As the privacy officer for The Advisory Board Co., Rebecca Fayed knows a thing or two about privacy and what can happen when it’s...
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Tax Day Pop Quiz: How to Avoid Obamacare Penalties
. by Annie Z. Yu figure.main { display:none; }The Affordable Care Act opened enrollment at the end of 2013. And now as Americans send in their 2014 taxes, some may be paying penalties to the IRS as a...
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