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Investigating wrongful convictions at @the_MIP. Former @KCStar criminal justice reporter. Husband.
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'Welcome to hell': Kids allege physical and sexual abuse at Missouri treatment center

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By Luke Nozicka
| KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO) Verified
When Taylor Kiesel arrived at Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks, a youth residential treatment center in Missouri, another student cautioned her. "Welcome to hell," the kid said. Kiesel, then 16, soon learned why. She and other former students said staff at the center, known as Calo, neglected and assaulted the children and teenagers whose developmental trauma they were tasked with healing.
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‘Welcome to hell': Kids allege physical, sexual abuse at Missouri treatment center

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By Luke Nozicka
| KWMU-FM (St. Louis, MO) Verified
When Taylor Kiesel arrived at Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks, a youth residential treatment center in Missouri, another student cautioned her. “Welcome to hell,” the kid said. Kiesel, then 16, soon learned why. She and other former students said staff at the center, known as Calo, neglected and assaulted the children and teenagers whose developmental trauma they were tasked with healing.
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How a centuries-old legal tool helped immigrants leave ICE detention

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By Luke Nozicka, Katie Moore Verified
| KWMU-FM (St. Louis, MO) Verified
This story is a collaboration between The Midwest Newsroom and The Marshall Project. A man who fled an uprising in the Middle East decades ago, and whose son serves in the U.S. Air Force, was taken into custody during a routine immigration appointment in Des Moines, Iowa. Another man brought to the country as a child in 1999, who now has a U.S.-born child, was arrested after a minor traffic stop in southwest Missouri.
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