
Justice Department finds Tennessee board discriminated against lawyer over opioid disorder medication
An NBC News report chronicled Derek Scott’s yearslong struggle to receive his law license while he continued to take his medication.

A profitable 'death trap': Sequel youth facilities raked in millions while accused of abusing children
Sequel Youth & Family Services collected hundreds of millions in tax dollars to care for vulnerable children, despite abuse and negligence allegations.

For Black families in Phoenix, child welfare investigations are a constant threat
One in three Black children in Maricopa County, Arizona, faced a child welfare investigation over a five-year period, leaving many families in a state of dread. Some parents are pushing back.

'All the water's bad': In McDowell County, you have to get creative to find safe drinking water
To get drinking water, Burlyn Cooper and his neighbors have to collect runoff from the rock face of a mountain. It’s contaminated, but it’s all they have.

Is Temujin Kensu a 'ninja killer' or wrongfully convicted man?
In 1987, Kensu was convicted of murdering a Michigan college student despite multiple alibi witnesses and an elaborate theory for how he pulled off the crime.

Aviation experts dispute plane theory used to convict Michigan’s ‘ninja killer’
Letters written in support of prisoner Temujin Kensu’s bid for clemency raise questions about expert testimony in his 1987 trial.

Defying presidents and Congress, the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals shroud their shootings in secrecy
Despite nearly 30 years of demands for transparency, the DOJ's law enforcement agencies release little data about whom they shoot, why and when, and they rarely use body cameras.

A family confronts a ‘Constitution-free zone’ in their fight to hold the DEA accountable for their son’s death
Families who lose loved ones in shootings involving federal officers have little recourse in the nation’s courts. Caleb Slay’s family is trying anyway.

'I'm scared to give it to my kids': Baltimore's water issues are symptoms of a growing national problem
The federal government has “waited too long” to invest in water infrastructure, EPA chief Michael Regan told NBC News in an interview.

'Nobody Cares': Flint Family Says Lead Pipes Must Go
A plumber told the family it would cost $10,000 to replace pipes — more than half the value of their home.

A sheriff's deputy shot a 14-year-old boy. It went unreported for months.
"I thought we had honesty," said Gaylor Spiller, head of the NAACP chapter in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. "This 14-year-old boy that they kept hidden, it's very telling."

ICE keeps transferring detainees around the country, leading to COVID-19 outbreaks
Detainee transfers have led to COVID-19 outbreaks in facilities in at least 5 states. Despite limited testing, over 1,400 detainees have tested positive.

Immigration crackdown makes women afraid to testify against abusers, experts warn
"You have a situation where undocumented victims are scared to come to court because they fear they are going to get deported."

Maternity ward to close as family calls for justice in death of Black mother
Centinela Hospital Medical Center in California cites a declining demand for delivery services. But the move to close comes after a woman died while in labor.

When feds sought to shutter immigration jail, politics intervened
The serpentine Coosa River once brought people and goods aplenty to this pretty Southern town, known first for its riverboats and later for its rubber and steel plants.

Immigrant detainees land in limbo in Alabama jail
Immigrant advocates have for years called Etowah one of the worst facilities in ICE’s sprawling detention system.

Gambling on immigration detention
One Georgia county bet its financial future on becoming a regional center for immigrant detention. But harsh immigration politics scared off the very workers farmers depend on for the harvest.

'Cash register justice': Private probation services face legal counterattack
Kathleen Hucks was walking her dogs down the dirt road that leads out of Mim’s Rentals, a small trailer park in rural Augusta, Ga., when a police officer in a cruiser stopped her on Labor Day weekend.

Here's how hard it is to trace a migrant kid who has been separated from his mom
NBC News was able to trace a phone number and find the likely location of a separated child. It's not as easy for grandma in Honduras and mom in the U.S.

Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary confinement in U.S. detention centers
Newly obtained documents show that ICE detainees are sometimes placed in solitary for reasons that have nothing to do with rule violations.

The brief life of Cornelius Frederick: Warning signs missed before teen's fatal restraint
A Michigan youth facility had an extensive pattern of violations, raising questions about why the state didn't act before a 16-year-old died.

'Love, over everything': As West Virginia struggles with foster care crisis, families step up
Louisa Snuffer and her wife, Nikki, wanted to build a family together. Now they're the parents of eight children from West Virginia's foster care system.

A 'forever chemical' contaminates drinking water near military bases
Communities nationwide have found levels of PFAS in their water hundreds, sometimes thousands, of times higher than the level recommended by the EPA.

Frank had always wanted to be a police officer. Everything changed when he shot a man in the line of duty.
After he shot a violent man, New York State Trooper Frank Abbott suffered from PTSD. He says he didn't get help — until a cop named Jim stepped in.

Under Ben Carson, more families live in HUD housing that fails health and safety inspections
While HUD Secretary Ben Carson pledged to fix low-income housing, the number of properties cited for health and safety violations has been on the rise.

'It always comes down to money': How a nonprofit is changing lives by paying bail
Since The Bail Project launched in 2017, NBC News has had an exclusive, frontline view of how the program is working in cities like Tulsa and St. Louis.

'They told me it was going to be a good place': Allegations of abuse at home for at-risk kids
Complaints about Iowa's Clarinda Academy, which houses at-risk kids from many states, include allegations of negligence and sexual and physical abuse.

Opioid Crisis Forces Grandparents to Raise Their Grandkids
Everything his grandpa does, 5-year-old Colton wants to do. Even if it means wearing Crocs with socks.

Handcuffed Black Youth Shot Himself to Death, Says Coroner
A coroner’s report obtained exclusively by NBC News directly contradicts the police version of how a 22-year-old black man died in the back seat of a Louisiana police cruiser earlier this year -- but still says the man, whose hands were cuffed behind his back, shot himself.

Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office under scrutiny for treatment of inmates, others in custody
In a year that has seen mass protests over the treatment of African-American men by law enforcement — in Ferguson, Missouri; Staten Island, New York; and, most recently, Baltimore, among other places — New Iberia still managed to grab an unwanted moment in the national spotlight.

Shocking Jail Video Shows Guard and Dog Attacking Prisoner
It was Dec. 6, 2012, and Marcus Robicheaux, like the other inmates at the Iberia Parish Jail in New Iberia, Louisiana, was standing with his hands on his head and his nose pressed against the wall of the recreation yard as jail officers ran a contraband sweep.

Special report: Uncovering why eight people have died in Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office custody in 10 years
Robert Sonnier just wanted to tell the world about Jesus. For at least 10 years, the devout Catholic and Loreauville native had experienced religious visions. The visions didn’t bother him so much as keep him entertained, according to his family.

How this police department is fighting for its officers' mental health after suicides
For at least the past three years, more police officers across the nation have died by suicide than in the line of duty.

24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump administration
The deaths of 3 detainees since April, along with the release of internal reports about detention center conditions, have spurred an outcry from advocates.

Trump admin ran 'pilot program' for separating migrant families in 2017
The numbers show the government was separating migrant kids from their parents prior to the zero tolerance policy implemented in May.

The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence
Most states shut down their debtors’ prisons more than 100 years ago; in 2005, Harpersville, Alabama, opened one back up.

The judge who sentenced Nancy Seaman for murder now wants to set her free
The jury that convicted Michigan housewife Nancy Seaman of first-degree murder, says Judge Jack McDonald, "didn't get the whole story."
Three mustangs stand at the edge of a cabbage field just after nightfall, poised to run. Their riders, all Border Patrol agents, have received word that a group of migrants are trekking across a levee that runs alongside the Rio Grande.