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In the summer of 2021, the body of 29-year-old Damien Cameron was delivered to the crime lab in Jackson, Mississippi. Cameron, a Black man, had died after a struggle with police. His face was swollen and bloodied, and there was bleeding in his neck. Witnesses described seeing two deputies kneeling on Cameron for more than 10 minutes. Yet Staci Turner, the state’s medical examiner, ruled Cameron’s manner of death to be “undetermined.” That decision effectively headed off any further investigation ....
Samantha Max covers criminal justice for WPLN and joins the newroom through the Report for America program. This is her second year with Report for America: She spent her first year in Macon, Ga., covering health and inequity for The Telegraph and macon.com. ....
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A Detroit man who spent 15 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit is now leading an effort to advocate for those in the position he was once in. ....
Jennifer Del Prete, an Illinois woman whose murder conviction was overturned after a Medill Justice Project investigation, had her retrial criminal case dismissed and all charges against her dropped Wednesday. Del Prete spent more than nine years in prison after her 2005 conviction for first-degree murder. Authorities accused her of shaking a 4-month-old child at. ....