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Paige Pfleger

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

Tennessee’s juvenile lifers ‘have hope again’ after their sentences are ruled unconstitutional

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Earlier this month, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that the state’s mandatory 51 year life sentence is unconstitutional. That means 122 incarcerated Tennesseans will be eligible for a parole hearing after serving 25 years of their sentences.

The fatal police shooting of a man named Chief may deepen the divide between the city and Nashvillians struggling with homelessness

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A man named Drandon John Brown was shot and killed by police over the weekend. Among homeless outreach workers and friends, Brown was known as “Chief.” They say he was a veteran and a leader among the residents of the Brookmeade Park homeless encampment — though he often struggled with his mental health.

Hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans can’t vote because of a felony conviction. They are challenging state law to have their voices heard.

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Tennessee has one of the highest rates of voter disenfranchisement in the country. About 1.7 million Tennesseans voted during last week’s election, but more than 400,000 residents could not have their voices heard at the polls.

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