William Glaberson, Justice Denied: Inside the Bronx’s Dysfunctional Court System. Four-part series in The New York Times. 13-30 April 2013. “The Bronx courts are failing. With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial.”
Archives for April 2013
April 7, 2013
Nevada Patient Busing: Las Vegas mental hospital used commercial buses to “dump” more than 1,500 psychiatric patients in 48 states over five years
Cynthia Hubert and Phillip Reese, Nevada Patient Busing. The Sacramento Bee, Series of 5 stories published on 7 April, 14 April, 5 May, 23 June, and 15 December 2013. “The Bee began this investigation after learning of a mentally ill man who, according to sources in the social services community, had been bused from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital to Sacramento, with a minimal supply of food and medication and without any arrangements for his treatment or housing. After locating him in a boarding home in Sacramento, The Bee pieced together James Flavy Coy Brown’s story by interviewing him at length, tracking down relatives across the country, and talking to doctors, social workers and caregivers he encountered after his arrival in Sacramento. Brown gave us permission to access his confidential medical information….”
Finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting.
Winner of the 2013 George Polk Award for Medical Reporting.
Winner of the 2013 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism.
April 1, 2013
The Master: Sexual Abuse at Horace Mann High School
Marc Fisher, The Master. The New Yorker. 1 April 2013. “A charismatic teacher [Robert Berman at Horace Mann in the Bronx] enthralled his students. Was he abusing them?”