Pamela Colloff

Dec 28, 2024 | propublica.org | Pamela Colloff |Joshua Kaplan |Dave Altimari |Maya Miller

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Parents are being charged with abusive head trauma, a newer name for shaken baby syndrome, as mounting exonerations and new science raise questions about the diagnosis. Child abuse pediatricians defend their diagnostic process, saying they do rigorous examinations to rule out other possibilities before they make a determination of abuse.

Sep 10, 2024 | propublica.org | Pamela Colloff |Richard Webster |Eric Umansky |Max Blau

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Nashville, Tennessee, medical examiner who determined 24 years ago that Russell and Kaye Maze’s young son, Alex, was the victim of homicide — a finding that helped persuade a jury to send Russell to prison for life — now says he was wrong.

Jul 31, 2024 | propublica.org | Eric Umansky |Richard Webster |Pamela Colloff |Tim Golden

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. New York City lawmakers are calling for the police commissioner to be stripped of his power to short-circuit officer misconduct cases.

Jul 12, 2024 | propublica.org | Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen |Pamela Colloff |Stacy Kranitz

Shrub Oak International School, a private, for-profit boarding school in New York, promises personalized assistance for autistic students with complex needs. But it operates with little oversight, and students have suffered. 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. ProPublica’s journalists live and work all over the country.

Jul 11, 2024 | propublica.org | Pamela Colloff |Stacy Kranitz |Richard Webster |Eric Umansky

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is a partnership between ProPublica, where Pamela Colloff is a senior reporter, and The New York Times Magazine, where she is a staff writer. This story is exempt from our Creative Commons license until Oct. 9. Sunny Eaton never imagined herself working at the district attorney’s office.