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Investigative reporter @ajc https://t.co/ozBVZhGA9w
Joined October 2011
Thank you to the brave journalist @marykbruce for remembering my husband #JamalKhashoggi @JKhashoggi. He would be so proud of you. #SHERO #FreedomofthePress
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Congratulations to the 2025 Minard Editor Award Honoree, Lois Norder, who truly embodies the behind-the-scenes impact and mentorship this award is meant to recognize. #loebawards
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For the second time in two years, a decomposing body has been discovered in a Georgia prison cell. This time it was a woman, Sheqweetta Vaughan, and she died in a cell where the temperature was 90 degrees six months after giving birth.
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Woman who died at Lee Arrendale State Prison had given birth in custody six months earlier.
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How is it that a correctional officer is busted trying to smuggle 112 grams of meth into a Georgia prison in a Hot Pockets package and isn’t prosecuted for it? Read my latest.
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At a Georgia prison notorious for drug smuggling, 23 cases in four years were dismissed because the suspected drugs never made it to the state crime lab
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For all who saw “Disgraced,” here’s an update and a really good story from @DanWetzel.
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Carlton Dotson is no longer behind bars, while a Baylor coaching whistleblower is now a prison warden
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With Georgia lawmakers poised to tackle the state’s prison problem, the problem keeps getting worse. Here are our latest homicide numbers. They are staggering.
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January is off to a bloody start in Georgia prisons after setting a new record for homicides last year.
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The cost of prison violence hits Georgia medical and EMS providers now slammed by $75M in unpaid bills.
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Public ambulance services and hospitals are owed $75 million from the now-bankrupt Wellpath. Some want the state to reimburse them.
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Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his.
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Trump’s DOGE chief sees government corruption everywhere but in the mirror.
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Two prisoners found dead after gang violence erupts at one of Georgia’s most poorly staffed prisons.
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Two prisoners are dead in the latest outburst of violence at a Georgia state prison.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wants to spend $600 million to deal with the horrific conditions in the state’s prisons. His own consultants say that might not be enough. With @CCTeegardin and @GAinvestigate
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Recommendations to upgrade facilities and to address staffing shortages will need more spending than Gov. Kemp proposes.
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Amid record killings and general turmoil, the Georgia prison system has played games with the truth. @ajcnews
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How the Georgia prison system has used misinformation, false statements, falsified documents and flawed data to hide the truth. My latest with @CCTeegardin and @GAinvestigate.
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Response to a 2019 prison lawsuit settlement exposes how Georgia Department of Corrections officials block potentially damaging information and present falsified documents.
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Breaking: Fulton County is violating the civil rights of the people housed at the county jail by allowing “abhorrent, unconstitutional” conditions at the Rice Street facility in Atlanta, Justice Department officials allege https://t.co/p2XG0yhSOB
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U.S. Department of Justice says the county frequently failed to protect inmates’ safety, presiding over an environment that has led to homicides, stabbings and sexual abuse.
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Ex-guard sentenced for sex with inmates at Georgia’s largest women’s prison
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An ex-guard at Georgia's troubled Lee Arrendale State Prison has been sentenced for sexual acts with three women prisoners.
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Homicides inside women’s prisons are extraordinarily rare. The killings at the largest of Georgia’s facilities for women add an alarming twist to an unprecedented year of violent deaths within the Department of Corrections. More in this AJC Investigation: https://t.co/Ct1XHZJ5oG
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Hallie Reed and Sherry Joyce were strangled to death eight days apart in the psych unit at Lee Arrendale State Prison. How does something like that happen? The Georgia Dept. of Corrections isn't talking, not even to their families.
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AJC investigation: Georgia prisons set an astonishing new record for prisoner homicides — only nine months into 2024.
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Death behind bars: Here’s how Georgia prisoners are being killed
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AJC exclusive: Details of each killing in Georgia's prisons since 2020, taken from official records. This year’s death toll sets a new record.
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Feds say the Georgia prison system is a horror show and that immediate change is necessary. The question is, will those who run the Georgia prison system go along. With @CCTeegardin and @GAinvestigate
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Department of Justice says Georgia prisons require immediate action, citing sexual assaults, homicides and other violence. But state officials dig in.
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`A loss of control over the prisons has set in, with near-constant, life-threatening violence functioning as the norm.' With @CCTeegardin and @GAinvestigate
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Department of Justice investigation finds Georgia 'indifferent' to 'horrific' prison conditions including torture and starvation.
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