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Tom Meagher is the deputy managing editor. A veteran reporter and editor, he previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor at the Newark Star-Ledger. His first reporting job was covering night cops for a small daily paper in Kansas.

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How Many People Have Been Killed by ICE and Border Patrol?

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By Shannon Heffernan , Tom Meagher 
| The Marshall Project
Shortly after Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street on Saturday, federal officials denounced Pretti as a “domestic terrorist,” claiming he was attempting to gun down immigration officers. That narrative quickly unraveled when bystanders’ cell phone footage that contradicted the Trump administration’s statements spread across social media.
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A Criminal Justice Journalist Wrestles With Doubts in the Jury Box

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By Tom Meagher 
| The Marshall Project
Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. Sign up to receive “Life Inside” emailed to you every week. When I started as a journalist more than 25 years ago, my editors sent me to cover crime, the local police and the courts. I’ve lost track of how many hearings I’ve observed while sitting in courtroom galleries. In the years since then, I’ve been called for jury duty a few times, but I’d never been selected to serve on a trial.
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How a 'Blue Wall' Inside New York State Prisons Protects Abusive Guards

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By Alysia Santo , Joseph Neff , Tom Meagher , Ilica Mahajan
| Exclusive Global News
BEACON, N.Y. - The method the jail guards described it of their paperwork, there was a minor disturbance the day they took Chad Stanbro to a dental clinic at a regional hospital. Stanbro, a prisoner, had been sedated however grew to become agitated throughout surgical procedure, took a swing at a dentist and kicked a correctional officer within the abdomen, they wrote.
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