As part of a broader investigation of conviction integrity units supported by the Fund, New York Focus and Columbia Journalism Investigations examined the New York Attorney General’s conviction review bureau, which was launched in 2012 to review innocence claims from across the state. But the program has fallen short, the investigation found. The bureau does not operate as an independent ...
In a yearlong series on evictions from public housing, the Bangor Daily News, in partnership with ProPublica, uncovered practices around back rent repayment agreements that Maine’s housing leaders didn’t even know were happening. With support from the Fund, reporter Sawyer Loftus showed that people in public housing who paid their back rent have evictions on their permanent records – even ...