Michael Schwirtz appears in the following:
Spy vs. Spy
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Investigating Racial Bias in New York State Prisons
Monday, December 12, 2016
Rikers for Teens: 'A Deep-Seated Culture of Violence'
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
After a federal report found a pattern of abuses against teen prisoners, hear from a caller inside the prison about what conditions are really like.
A 'Culture of Brutality' on Rikers Island
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
In Danger on Rikers Island
Thursday, March 27, 2014
New York Times reporter Michael Schwirtz sheds light on the problems at the City jail complex on Rikers Island, including prisoner abuse and the problems corrections officers face in dealing with a smaller population, but one with a higher component of the mentally ill.
Sewage After Sandy
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Michael Schwirtz, reporter for The New York Times, talks about his reporting on how hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage from area treatment plants have flowed into NY and NJ waterways. NYC Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland discusses the city's response.
At Least Six Killed in Gun Attack on Chechen Parliament
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
In the latest chapter in a long history of violence in Chechnya, militants broke into the Chechen Parliament in Grozny this morning gunning down at least six people and wounding more than a dozen others. Two of the attackers were reported to be suicide bombers. This attack, like others, is thought to be a challenge to the authority of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's leader. Michael Schwirtz, Moscow correspondent for The New York Times, has been following the story and joins the program with the latest.