Fentanyl Pipeline: How a Chinese Prison Helped Fuel a Deadly Drug Crisis in the United States
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While China enforces strict laws against domestic drug trafficking, state-supported companies have openly shipped fentanyl to the U.S., investigators say. One prison-owned chemical company boasted online: “100% of our shipments will clear customs.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/china-fentanyl-prison-yafeng-illegal-drug-trade?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Over the past 27 years, nine prisoners have been set free after being convicted in part on inaccurate evidence given by an infamous forensic pathologist and dentist team.
Duncan was the last person awaiting an execution based on the pair’s work.
https://www.propublica.org/article/jimmie-duncan-murder-conviction-nullified-death-row?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.
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Community mental health centers, counties and a state agency have reported vastly different numbers of people who spent time in jail while waiting to be treated for serious mental illness.
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work
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GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Utah Ex-Therapist Scott Owen Sentenced to Prison for Sexually Abusing Patients
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Owen’s 15-year-to-life prison term follows a 2023 investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica that uncovered a range of sex abuse allegations against the ex-therapist, who claimed to be a specialist for struggling gay Latter-day Saints men.
https://www.propublica.org/article/scott-owen-utah-therapist-sexual-abuse-prison-sentence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
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A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tiger-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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