Joseph Shapiro appears in the following:
Court Fees Drive Many Poor Defendants Underground
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Supreme Court Ruling Not Enough To Prevent Debtors Prisons
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Big Fees For The Big Easy's Poorest Defendants
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Unpaid Court Fees Land The Poor In 21st Century Debtors' Prisons
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price
Monday, May 19, 2014
Feds List Schools Under Investigation For Abuse Claims
Friday, May 02, 2014
Campus Rape Reports Are Up, And Assaults Aren't The Only Reason
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Shooting Unfairly Links Violence With Mental Illness — Again
Thursday, April 03, 2014
With the Army's disclosure that Army Spc. Ivan Lopez was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder before he went on a shooting rampage Wednesday, there were once again questions about whether the Army could have prevented the violence at Fort Hood.
Experts in mental health say (even as more ...
Mastermind Of 'Body Stealing' Scheme Dies
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Dr. Michael Mastromarino died Sunday after battling liver and bone cancer. He was 49.
Mastromarino pleaded guilty to "body stealing." In 2008, he was sentenced to up to 58 years in prison.
But he continued to insist that he'd been misunderstood. He spoke to NPR, working with the International Consortium ...
Amid Dropping Test Scores, Teen Writers' Creativity Soars
Thursday, June 13, 2013
NPR correspondent Joseph Shapiro and his daughter Eva spent the weekend at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Eva, 15, won the "Best in Grade" award, one of two for ninth-grade writers, for a short story. She takes writing classes with Writopia Lab in Washington, D.C.
To hear recent ...
Turning Up The Heat On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Six years ago, the FBI took on a challenge: To review what it called cold-case killings from the civil rights era. The investigation into 112 cases from the 1950s and 1960s is winding down, and civil rights activists are weighing the FBI's efforts.
The review comes with word this week ...
Justice In The Segregated South: A New Look At An Old Killing
Friday, May 03, 2013
This story contains language that some may find offensive.
In the segregated South in 1965, John Queen was about as insignificant as a man could be. He was black, elderly and paralyzed. His legs had been crushed when as a boy he fell off a roof. For the rest of ...
Law Targets Sexual Violence On College Campuses
Thursday, March 07, 2013
When President Obama signs an updated version of the Violence Against Women Act on Thursday afternoon, the law will include new requirements for how colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual assault.
Laura Dunn, who's been invited by the White House to attend, plans to be there.
In 2010, ...
Brain-Damaged Man Wins New Trial In Two-Decades-Old Killing
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
On the Paralympics
Friday, September 07, 2012
Joseph Shapiro, NPR Correspondent and author of the book No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement talks about some of the American stories out of the 2012 Paralympic Games.
Pistorius Falls To Britain's Peacock In 100 Meters; American Browne Is Second
Thursday, September 06, 2012
