Some California county jails saw their rate of inmate-on-inmate homicides triple or quadruple, and statewide the number rose 46% after 2011 prison reforms shifted responsibility from state prisons to county lockups, and as sheriffs and jail staff strain, some inmate crimes go undetected for hours, reports a joint investigation by US site ProPublica and Californian daily The Sacramento Bee.
The Trump administration has continued pursuing a proposed nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia despite warnings from ethics lawyers and security experts, according to a congressional oversight committee, confirming previous reports by US investigative website ProPublica.
US investigative website ProPublica obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the US shelters housing immigrant children. Here’s what they show.
The Trump administration encouraged prosecutors to seek felony charges against those who re-enter the US after being deported. US investigative website ProPublica recounts the case of a Bucks County gardener, who government employees felt half-hearted about turning from an immigrant into a criminal.
The top US federal law enforcement agency, the FBI, is overwhelmingly made up of white staff, a fact which one of its top officials told US investigative website ProPublica is “a huge operational risk”, and which in the words of a former director had created a “crisis”.
A senior official with the Red Cross in America harassed a subordinate and was accused of raping another, yet the charity’s now-general counsel praised him on his way to a new for his “leadership” and “dedication”, recounts US investigative site ProPublica in a report illustrating the unsettling way many employers dealt with such allegations against ranking male executives.
False reporting of rape is a crime, one that some police would like to make a priority, but history shows the police can’t always tell the truth from a lie, finds US investigative site ProPublica in this report on the ordeal of some victims and the campaigns to change the approach of police.
The recent devastating monster storms that were Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma also whipped up a number of falsehoods. US news and investigative website ProPublica talked with Jane Lytvynenko, a reporter with weathered experience of trying to hold on to the facts.
Donald Trump’s supporters crowed when leaked pages of his 2005 return showed he paid a hefty amount of taxes. But the returns for the following years, which remain secret, likely include some hefty refunds of that payment, reports US website ProPublica in this investigation co-published with The Washington Post.
Texas is scheduled to release Genene Jones, a former nurse and suspected serial killer of children, early next year. Now, prosecutors in San Antonio have moved to prevent her release, bringing a new murder charge against Jones in connection with the death of a child 35 years ago. US investigative website ProPublica reports on the chilling and disturbing tale of the woman dubbed 'the Angel of Death'.
