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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Two days after an explosion rocked downtown Nashville, residents are reeling from what their mayor called the city's "hardest year ever."
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Several criminal justice reform groups are urging the Tennessee Supreme Court to release people from jails and juvenile detention centers. The emergency motion, filed Tuesday, cites a recent surge in
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The state of Tennessee will not execute Pervis Payne next month, as planned.Gov. Bill Lee announced Friday that he is a postponing Payne’s execution until…
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Nov. 4 is the first day to file legislation in the Tennessee General Assembly for the upcoming session, and the state’s Black Caucus has already submitted…
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A film that debuted last week at the Nashville Film Festival takes a deeper look at the conviction of Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, whom Nashville's district attorney has asked to be spared from a death sentence.
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Gov. Bill Lee’s Education Savings Account program has, once again, been ruled unconstitutional. The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling on the controversial plan to offer vouchers
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A new national report on racial disparities in the death penalty explores two high-profile cases that are winding their way through the courts here in…
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Eyeglasses. A bloody tampon. A towel. A knife. These are just a few of the items investigators found in Charisse Christopher’s kitchen after she and her…
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A Tennessee man who is scheduled for execution this December is asking the state to give him one more chance to prove his innocence. Pervis Payne was…
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Pregnancy testing. Advice on healthy eating. Postpartum care. These are some of the services that Tennessee jails and prisons are now required to offer the state’s growing population of female