2001 KATY RECKDAHL — Continued her periodic series on the juvenile justice system in Louisiana for the Gambit weekly newspaper with an account of the system’s faltering effort to deal with girls, who now account for one of every four juveniles arrested. In October she wrote about allegations of abuse at the Tallulah juvenile prison. ...
2001 KENT PATERSON — Investigated the Bush administration’s attempt to relax restraints on the training of Mexican police officers by U.S. law enforcement agencies. The proposed changes would allow “thugs and murderers” into the system and revive practices of torture and disappearance. His story was produced for the Pacific News Service. ...
2000 Black Mass, The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil’s Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill is the story of John Connolly, an agent in the FBI’s Boston office, and James “Whitey” Bulger, godfather of the Irish mob. They grew up together and Connolly had a scheme to bring Bulger into the FBI fold and put himself into ...
2000 Red Mafiya – How The Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert Friedman is an investigative book exposing Russian organized crime, its growing power in the United States and how it has infiltrated US banks and brokerage houses. Published in May 2000 by Little Brown. ...
2000 Story investigating lung cancer research, the reluctance of US hospitals to use CT scans to identify lung tumors in their earliest stages and the indifference toward lung cancer victims by Tinker Ready in the July 11 Boston Globe. ...
2000 Special issue documenting the plight of African American males in Chicago supported by graphics depicting their education level, unemployment, life expectancy and parenthood. Published in the April issue of The Chicago Reporter it paints a grim picture of a group in crisis. ...
2000 An investigation of the denial of medications and drugs to jailed inmates with AIDS and HIV and the serious public health consequences if drug-resistant strains are transmitted to others. By Anne-Marie Cusac in the July issue of The Progressive. ...
2000 An investigation of Kenya’s juvenile homes and how, through corruption, theft and negligence, they are breeding delinquents and hardened criminals by Wanjohi Kabukuru in the April and May issues of Nairobi’s The People on Sunday. ...
2000 An investigation of the US government’s friendly dealings with Nazi war criminals after WWII; how Dieter Maier, an amateur German investigator, found more information on US collaboration with Nazis than a committee appointed by Congress to extract the same data; and the CIA’s refusal thus far to turn over a single piece of paper relating to Nazi looting, war ...
2000 Cover and lead story by Anne-Marie Cusac about the use of restraint chairs in US jails and prisons which has led to torture and death. Published in the April issue of The Progressive. ...