Samantha Melamed
Investigative Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
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2 days ago |
inquirer.com | Samantha Melamed
This story is part of an ongoing series on youth justice. Part 1: An outlier in youth incarceration. Part 2: Reforms promised, then abandoned. Part 3: Womb-to-prison pipeline. Kids in Philly call it being “on the band.” In recent years, the city’s juvenile justice system has rapidly expanded its use of GPS-equipped ankle monitors to enforce curfews and house arrest. Today, Philadelphia is tracking teens’ whereabouts at a scale unmatched in any other U.S. city.
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3 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Samantha Melamed |Ellie Rushing
State regulators have revoked and downgraded the license of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services, accusing the agency of accessing a confidential child-abuse database to spy on its investigation into allegations of child abuse at the city’s juvenile detention center.
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1 month ago |
firehouse.com | Samantha Melamed
May 6—A top-ranking commander at the Philadelphia Fire Department is under investigation for harassment — while at least two employees who made complaints against him have been questioned in a separate investigation into overtime abuse. Both sides claim they are being targeted in retaliation for exposing misconduct within the 2,800-member department, raising questions about accountability and the waste of tax dollars in one of the city's critical public-safety agencies.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Samantha Melamed |Max Marin
A top-ranking commander at the Philadelphia Fire Department is under investigation for harassment — while at least two employees who made complaints against him have been questioned in a separate investigation into overtime abuse. Both sides claim they are being targeted in retaliation for exposing misconduct within the 2,800-member department, raising questions about accountability and the waste of tax dollars in one of the city’s critical public-safety agencies.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Samantha Melamed |Ellie Rushing
A Philadelphia judge could face discipline over his promotion of his wife’s cheesesteak shop — a rare move from the state’s Judicial Conduct Board. The board, in a complaint made public Tuesday, said Common Pleas Court Judge Scott DiClaudio — who is on probation for an earlier ethical violation — eroded public trust in the judiciary through his involvement with Shay’s Steaks at 16th and Race streets, just blocks from the Criminal Justice Center, where DiClaudio presides.
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