Joseph Shapiro

Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who is an NPR news investigations correspondent. He spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report as a senior writer on social policy and served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and congressional reporter.

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How America’s newest prison became one of its deadliest
June 2, 2022 By Christie Thompson And Joseph Shapiro
Fatal beatings. A “torture room.” Pairs of men held around the clock in tiny cells, tempers rising. “They’re literally afraid for their lives,” one lawyer said.
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Joseph Shapiro

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joseph Shapiro

How America’s newest prison became one of its deadliest