Samantha Max
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.
Previously, she was an investigative reporting intern for the Medill Justice Project and a bilingual multimedia news intern at Hoy, Chicago Tribune’s Spanish-language daily. She returned to her hometown of Baltimore in 2015 and again in 2016 to work as a newsroom intern for NPR-affiliate WYPR.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's latest reporting on law enforcement-related deaths reveals that most people killed by police were armed.
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Criminal justice is a hot topic in the Tennessee legislature this year. And while some bills would keep people behind bars for longer, others aim to get people out — especially those held before their trials.
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As states broaden legal gun ownership, perceived threats to police can increase. Tennessee reports more shootings involving police.
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Body camera footage of a shooting by a Nashville police officer Monday shows how a roadside encounter quickly turned to gunfire, with the officer pulling the trigger less than a minute after he got out of his car.
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Gov. Bill Lee is granting them clemency — and creating a process for many more to be released early from prison.
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Nashville police academy graduates are overwhelmingly white and male. A new recruitment approach that stresses real world scenarios over militaristic courses promises more diversity.
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A man who faced execution for a crime he maintains he did not commit is no longer on death row. A judge in Memphis vacated the death sentence for Pervis Payne this week. But his conviction remains.
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The Nashville Police Department has changed its policy and now allows officers to wear a hijab, the Muslim headcover, on the job. Police say it creates trust in communities they're trying to reach.
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Torrential rains in Tennessee have left roads impassable. It was one of the highest rainfalls in Nashville's history. Rivers and creeks crested so high that homes and roads brimmed with water.
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Thousands of Tennessee prisoners are now going to be eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine.The announcement comes days after an Associated Press…