Samantha Max
Samantha Max covers criminal justice for WPLN and joins the newroom through the Report for America program. This is her second year with Report for America: She spent her first year in Macon, Ga., covering health and inequity for The Telegraph and macon.com.
Previously, she was an investigative reporting intern for the Medill Justice Project and a bilingual multimedia news intern at Hoy, Chicago Tribune’s Spanish-language daily. She returned to her hometown of Baltimore in 2015 and again in 2016 to work as a newsroom intern for NPR-affiliate WYPR.
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A New York law that makes it easier to sue gunmakers based on their marketing strategies is viewed as a test case for other states monitoring the outcome.
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Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that could mean prison time for sleeping in public spaces. It's the latest effort to regulate homelessness in a state. The bill now goes to the governor.
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Some Tennessee lawmakers are pushing for those convicted of crimes to serve their full sentences. But critics worry that without incentives for early release, prisoners won't be motivated to change.
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As states broaden legal gun ownership, perceived threats to police can increase. Tennessee reports more shootings involving police.
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Nashville police academy graduates are overwhelmingly white and male. A new recruitment approach that stresses real world scenarios over militaristic courses promises more diversity.
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A man who faced execution for a crime he maintains he did not commit is no longer on death row. A judge in Memphis vacated the death sentence for Pervis Payne this week. But his conviction remains.
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Torrential rains in Tennessee have left roads impassable. It was one of the highest rainfalls in Nashville's history. Rivers and creeks crested so high that homes and roads brimmed with water.
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Two days after an explosion rocked downtown Nashville, residents are reeling from what their mayor called the city's "hardest year ever."
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Conditions at the Bledsoe County Correctional Complex have left medical and correctional staff in a bind. If more personnel walk of the job, the state may be forced to call in the National Guard.
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The Nashville Police Department still doesn't have body cameras for its police officers — despite three different mayors saying it should. Now members of the public are asking why that's the case.