Ryan Kost
Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Freelance reporter. Previously: Columbia Journalism Investigations; @SFChronicle; @Oregonian; @AP. Desert rat. 🏜
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1 week ago |
centralcurrent.org | Ryan Kost
This story is a collaboration between New York Focus and Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School. You can find the first story in this series here and the second story here. Sign up for their newsletter here. Sometimes, innocent people go to jail because of junk science or an unreliable witness. More often than not, though, official misconduct is what leads to wrongful convictions, both across the country and in New York.
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2 weeks ago |
nysfocus.com | Ryan Kost
BEFORE YOU GO, consider: If not for the article you just read, would the information in it be public? Or would it remain hidden — buried within the confines of New York’s sprawling criminal-legal apparatus? I started working at New York Focus in 2022, not long after the outlet launched.
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1 month ago |
nysfocus.com | Ryan Kost |Oishika Neogi
BEFORE YOU GO, consider: If not for the article you just read, would the information in it be public? Or would it remain hidden — buried within the confines of New York’s sprawling criminal-legal apparatus? I started working at New York Focus in 2022, not long after the outlet launched.
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1 month ago |
thedailystar.com | Ryan Kost |Willow Higgins
There are perhaps hundreds of innocent people in New York prisons. Studies estimate that as much as 6% of the U.S. prison population is wrongfully incarcerated — that translates to about 2,000 wrongfully incarcerated people in the state. Their path to exoneration is narrow: They can appeal their convictions in court, but New York appellate courts rarely grant full exoneration.
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2 months ago |
rochesterbeacon.com | Ryan Kost |Willow Higgins
Justice & Public Safety This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for its newsletter here. Calvin Buari had served nearly half of a 50-year prison sentence for a double homicide he didn’t commit when, in 2015, prosecutors in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office asked him to stop fighting his conviction.
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