Pamela Colloff
@pamelacolloff
@propublica reporter + @NYTMag staff writer. Texas-based criminal justice reporter, storyteller, curious person. At work on a book for @randomhouse.
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https://www.propublica.org/site/author/pamela_colloff 08-01-2011 03:22:47
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When I was a kid, my dad gave me the talk: and by that I mean, he sat me down and told me the story of Prop 187. It’s hard to overstate how profoundly that law changed Latino life in California. Is the same about to happen in Texas?
For The Atlantic:
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
FWIW, the You're Wrong About... episodes about Nicole Brown Simpson are incredibly heartbreaking and @remember_sarah does a great job contextualizing the murder trial.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the…
I'm reading Megan Kimble's excellent new book, CITY LIMITS, which is ostensibly about highways, but is really about the failure of our car-centric cities, and the possibility for charting a different future--told through immersive, character-driven storytelling. So good.
It's rare to see conditions inside Rikers, but Jan Ransom obtained this footage showing how 8 officers and a captain stood by for 7 mins, 51 secs as teen Nicholas Feliciano hung himself in a cell. Now, a $28m settlement. w/ Ainara Tiefenthäler Michael LaForgia nytimes.com/2024/04/06/nyr…
Can’t remember the last time a piece brought me so much outrageous pleasure. Gary Shteyngart is a national treasure. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Have you ever been paid a set fee for a gig and thought ‘I should spend as little time as I can on this’?
Brian Dorsey’s lawyers were paid flat fees, and many think this is why he faces execution next week.
I dug into how common this is with Keri Blakinger:
themarshallproject.org/2024/04/03/exe…
I think about Evan Gershkovich every day, but today I can't stop. A year. An abomination. Unbearable.
We've had a setting for him at each of our holiday tables this year, a full cycle. I was hoping by now I would have given him the placecards I've collected. #IStandWithEvan
We don't talk enough about the trauma that jury duty can saddle people with.
Especially when you're sending someone to their death.
Especially when you later learn you didn't have all the facts, and they might be innocent.
Great Texas Monthly story:
texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…