Paige Pfleger
Criminal Justice Reporter at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)
Criminal justice reporter @WPLN • Investigating guns + juvenile justice with @ProPublica's Local Reporting Network • Tell me a secret: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Maria Ines Zamudio |Nicole Santa Cruz |Dave Biscobing |Paige Pfleger
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Invisible Institute and co-published with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. A former Chicago police officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony charges in connection with two incidents of sexual misconduct involving female colleagues — one that occurred while at the police training academy and one at a police precinct.
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2 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Nicole Santa Cruz |Dave Biscobing |Paige Pfleger |Mariam Elba
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Watch ABC15 Arizona's series "Seeking Death," based on our joint investigation into Maricopa County's handling of death penalty cases. Maricopa County has frequently pursued the death penalty but rarely secured death sentences.
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2 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Paige Pfleger |Mariam Elba |Anjeanette Damon |Mollie Simon
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WPLN/Nashville Public Radio, a 2023-2024 LRN partner. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. For half a century, through scandals, investigations, failed state inspections and even the illegal use of seclusion to punish children, Richard L. Bean remained in his perch of power as the superintendent of the juvenile detention center that bears his name.
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3 weeks ago |
timesfreepress.com | Paige Pfleger
Richard L. Bean, the longtime superintendent of the East Tennessee juvenile detention center that bears his name, abruptly announced May 30 that he will be stepping down. His decision to retire came the day after the Knox County mayor said he had lost confidence in Bean's leadership. At the time, Bean broadly defended the practices at the facility, saying he wished he had more punitive abilities and that people who pushed back didn't understand what was necessary.
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3 weeks ago |
wpln.org | Paige Pfleger
Tennessee's Department of Revenue has officially released the names of businesses that received tax refunds due to the franchise tax reform bill passed
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“He’s just been allowed to go unchecked,” said state Rep. Sam McKenzie of Knoxville. “It was just a bad situation compounded by a rubber-stamp board that really was trying to protect him, and not protect our children” https://t.co/Srz1GYH8N9
RT @TGonzalez: Some stories document what wrong — this one figures out how and why it all happened.
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