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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 politicians react to shooting at Trump rally. Some urge unity. Others push for a deeper divide.

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A shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania injured former President Donald Trump and killed one spectator as of the time of publication. Some Tennessee politicians say it’s an example of political divisiveness in the country, while others took the opportunity to criticize President Joe Biden.

‘Same book, but the next chapter’: A redesigned Covenant School reopens for the first time since the shooting

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This redesign was the school’s way of trying to fill the space with hope and playfulness after a shooting in 2023.

Despite outcry over seclusion at juvenile detention centers, Tennessee lawmakers fail to pass oversight bill

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A bill that would strengthen oversight of Tennessee’s juvenile detention centers has failed, despite a concerted push for reform after multiple county-run facilities were found to be locking children alone in cells.

Tennessee’s gun laws made it difficult to prevent the Covenant School shooting. Have they changed since?

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Since the Covenant School shooting, Tennessee has not enacted any new laws to separate people from their guns when they pose a threat.

Tennessee lawmakers want more oversight of juvenile detention. The Department of Children’s Services is pushing back.

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New legislation would shift enforcement power to an independent agency after a WPLN and ProPublica investigation found that a Knoxville detention center was illegally locking kids alone in cells.

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