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Ken Armstrong

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

Meribah Knight, Ken Armstrong ProPublica Oct 2021 45min Permalink

Business

Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.

Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Oct 2020 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime

An Unbelievable Story of Rape

A woman is accused of lying about being raped. Years later and several states away, the story changed.

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Listen to T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong discuss this article, which is the basis for Netflix’s new show Unbelievable, on the Longform Podcast

T. Christian Miller, Ken Armstrong ProPublica, The Marshall Project Dec 2015 50min Permalink

Crime

Two Murder Convictions for One Fatal Shot

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

Ken Armstrong New Yorker Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Best Article Crime History

Homer and Harold

When the prosecutor in a 1924 trial focused on the murder of a priest backed the suspect–and everything that followed.

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Ken Armstrong on the Longform Podcast.

Ken Armstrong The Marshall Project Dec 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

When He Was 16, This Man Threw One Punch—And Went to Jail for Life

Years after the era of the “superpredator,” Taurus Buchanan is still paying for a crime of his youth.

Corey G. Johnson, Ken Armstrong Mother Jones Jan 2016 20min Permalink

Crime History

Broken on the Wheel

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

Ken Armstrong The Marshall Project Mar 2015 15min Permalink

Crime

Death by Deadline

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

Ken Armstrong The Marshall Project Nov 2014 20min Permalink