Celebrities’ Medical Records Tempt Hospital Workers to Snoop
by Charles Ornstein Snooping on celebrities has been a bane for health systems around the country for years. The proliferation of electronic medical records systems has made it easier to track and...
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by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica Unrestrained While evidence of abuse of the disabled has piled up for decades, one...
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by Michael Grabell About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw Iowa’s system for compensating injured workers. As workers’...
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by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica What Happened to Adam It took one mother seven years to learn that the for-profit...
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by Justin Elliott ProPublica Red Cross Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Win McNamee/Getty The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern, who was hired to...
View ArticleThe FBI Checked the Wrong Box and a Woman Ended Up on the Terrorism Watch...
by Raymond Bonner, special to ProPublica, This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. As the Senate debated a proposal earlier this month that would have barred gun sales to people on the...
View ArticleFact-Checking the Debate on Encryption
by Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin As politicians and counter-terrorism officials search for lessons from the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, senior officials have called for...
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by Ginger Thompson, ProPublica, Susie Cagle, special to ProPublica, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, Five criminals in far-flung parts of the world, five D.E.A. sting operations, five dubious links...
View ArticleKids Get Hurt at Residential Schools While States Look On
by Annie Waldman After slamming his fists into the wall until his knuckles dripped with blood, the raging teenage boy turned to a staff member and shoved him. The teen had recently been admitted to...
View ArticleHow We Reported ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, The people interviewed for this story include Marie (in our story, we agreed to use only here middle name); Marie’s foster mothers Peggy...
View ArticleAn Unbelievable Story of Rape
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica The Marshall Project Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate An Unbelievable Story of Rape An 18-year-old said she was...
View ArticleDiscussion: How Not to Handle a Rape Investigation
by Amanda Zamora Detectives investigating a Lynnwood, Washington, teenager’s rape in our latest investigation, An Unbelievable Story of Rape, concluded she hadn’t been assaulted based in part on “her...
View ArticleAsk This Former DEA Agent Anything About Fighting Drug Cartels In Mexico
by Terry Parris Jr. In between Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and Mexico’s El Chapo, the world’s most powerful drug trafficker, there were the Arellano brothers. In the early 1990s, the Arellano...
View ArticleDevils, Deals and the DEA
by David Epstein ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Tim McDonagh, special to ProPublica Devils, Deals and the DEA Why Chapo Guzman was the biggest winner in the DEA's longest...
View ArticleWe Blew $17 Billion in Afghanistan. How Would You Have Spent It?
by Megan McCloskey, Tobin Asher, Lena Groeger and Sisi Wei, The U.S. government has wasted billions of dollars in Afghanistan, and until now, no one has added it all up. Project after project...
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by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica Unrestrained While evidence of abuse of the disabled has piled up for decades, one...
View ArticleA Trail of Medical Errors Ends in Grief, But No Answers
by Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. Over the course of her lifetime, Paula Schulte survived painful scoliosis that contorted her spine, a head injury...
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by Marshall Allen , Amanda Zamora and Olga Pierce The harm For patients For reporters Donate The voices of patient harm More than 1 million patients suffer harm each year in U.S. health care...
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