Joseph Shapiro

Joseph Shapiro appears in the following:

A hospital is suing a quadriplegic 18-year-old to make her go to a nursing home

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

A young North Carolina woman has refused to go to a nursing home in another state. While she wants to leave the hospital, she asks to live in her own home, close to family and her school.

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A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

A federal warden claims he tried to stop the abuse at his prison complex in Illinois, but faced threats from his staff and obstacles from his bosses.

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A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

He was tasked with ending abuse at a federal penitentiary in Illinois but says his own staff and Bureau of Prisons officials blocked his efforts.

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These kids used to get the bill for their own foster care. Now that's changing

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

States routinely took the benefits checks of children in foster care who were orphans or disabled. After an NPR/Marshall Project investigation, there's reform.

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New accounts of abuse at federal prison prompt renewed calls for investigation

Thursday, July 06, 2023

More than 120 prisoners held at a special unit in Thomson Penitentiary reported mistreatment, a Washington Lawyers' Committee report says.

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Disability groups claim California's assisted suicide law discriminates against them

Thursday, April 27, 2023

A California law allows a terminally ill person to end their life, but some people with disabilities say they're at risk of being coerced into seeking the medications needed for assisted suicide.

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Disability groups say California's assisted suicide law discriminates against them

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Four disability groups have filed a lawsuit to overturn California's assisted suicide law — saying it devalues their lives and encourages discrimination against them.

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Activist Judy Heumann led a reimagining of what it means to be disabled

Saturday, March 04, 2023

Heumann was instrumental in pushing to expand the civil rights of Americans with disabilities and continued to advocate for disability rights around the globe. She died on Saturday at age 75.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons is closing its deadliest unit over violence, abuse reports

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Following reporting by NPR and the Marshall Project, the Federal Bureau of Prisons cites a culture of abuse in shutting down one of the deadliest prison units in America.

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A penitentiary unit will shut down after deaths, exposed by NPR and Marshall Project

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

The Special Management Unit of the Thomson penitentiary in Illinois is shutting down because of deadly conditions there that were uncovered in reporting from NPR and The Marshall Project.

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One of the deadliest federal prison units is closing

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The Bureau of Prisons is shutting down a unit at its newest penitentiary in Illinois, following an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project that exposed it was rife with violence and abuse.

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In some states, an unpaid foster care bill could mean parents lose their kids forever

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Some states allow children to be removed from their parents if they fail to pay the cost of foster care. But that can be hundreds of dollars a month, and it's often the poorest families who must pay.

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Laws allow kids to be taken away from their parents if they fail to pay debts

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

For courts to end a parent's rights to their child, there has to be a serious reason. But NPR found laws that say it's OK to take kids away from their parents if they fail to pay certain debts.

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A closer look at the practice of billing parents for their child's foster care

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Loss of parental rights can be the ultimate punishment from a court. Unpaid debts for foster care can delay the reunion. Some parents are still getting bills even though the feds told states to stop.

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A woman who won a landmark civil rights case for people with disabilities has died

Monday, November 07, 2022

Lois Curtis, the Georgia artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit, has died at the age of 55. (Story first aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on Nov. 5, 2022.)

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Lois Curtis, who won a landmark civil rights case for people with disabilities, died

Saturday, November 05, 2022

Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to live outside of institutions, has died.

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The federal government will allow states to stop charging families for foster care

Friday, July 01, 2022

Following an NPR investigation, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to state and county officials that lets them stop charging parents whose children are placed in foster care.

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Lawmakers call for probe into deadly federal prison

Thursday, June 02, 2022

Following a Marshall Project/NPR report detailing violence and abuse at the newest federal penitentiary, three members of Congress asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate

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The newest federal prison has become one of the deadliest

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

NPR's Investigative Unit teamed up with The Marshall Project to look at a penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., that is one of the country's most violent and dangerous federal prisons.

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How the newest federal prison became one of the deadliest

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at an Illinois penitentiary. NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths there.

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