Eric Ferkenhoff News Today

From mental health to physical well-being, states are required to care for those in their custody. Activists and some officials say Arkansas fails horribly.

Marshall Ray Price died of blunt force trauma. Arkansas investigators blame a jail boxing match. The family questions the official version of events.

Marshall Ray Price was beaten inside a county jail in northeast Arkansas. A year later, no one has been charged in his death.

During a psychotic break, Joshua McLemore was in solitary at an Indiana county jail for 20 days. A lawsuit says he was neglected and starved to death.

Despite a 2021 Iowa law giving police qualified immunity, a man paralyzed in a Waterloo police shooting can refile his lawsuit, the court rules

Were there really bodies in the well? Sister of Lucy Studey McKiddy warned against believing the claims, but McKiddy remains adamant

Where there really bodies in the well? Sister of Lucy Studey McKiddy warned against believing the claims, but McKiddy remains adamant

In response to investigators closing the probe in Iowa, Lucy Studey writes: Well, you cant find evidence when youre in the WRONG SPOT.

Eric Ferkenhoff comes to Newsweeks investigative team from Gannett, where he wrote enterprise and investigative pieces for USA TODAY and Gannett properties — chiefly about problems in the criminal...

Families with missing relatives have reached out to alleged serial killers daughter to see if theres a connection to Donald Dean Studey, her father.