Emily Hamer

Been in what I like to call my “writing hole” for the last year working on this series. First installment out today: #tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tucson.com/life-entertain…

A 79-year-old Cuban asylum seeker with worsening dementia, who uses a wheelchair, has been detained in Eloy, AZ for nine months, despite her family's pleas to let them care for her. @TucsonStar #tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tucson.com/news/local/bor…

Afghans who risked their lives alongside U.S. troops are making a plea to @realDonaldTrump to lift the June travel ban or make an exemption so they can reunite with their families. They haven’t seen their wives and children in four years. Four years. madison.com/news/local/gov…

@Shalena78 Thank you for sharing your story!

@ehamer7 Thank you Emily hamer for helping me have a voice.

Out today: Women say they have been treated like “second-class citizens” in a religious sect called The Message. One woman said she was scolded for using the words “I think” and “I feel.” Now she and others are speaking out. tucson.com/life-entertain…

@ErwinVarga Best way to reach me is via email! Emily.hamer@lee.net Do you have an experience in The Message that you want to share?

Been in what I like to call my “writing hole” for the last year working on this series. First installment out today: #tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tucson.com/life-entertain…

A man accused of child molesting admitted to some of it in a phone call with me and my fellow reporter Tim Steller. The pastor also admitted he knew about the allegations and failed to report them — also a felony. Wild stuff in this story: tucson.com/life-entertain…

@howard_hardee Thank you, Howard!

@ehamer7 Wow, good work. Never even heard about the mass starvation event in Kenya until reading this. Story deserves an award.

@Meadepr Thank you!

@ehamer7 Congratulations, Emily. Many blessings for the future.

Hopping on here for the first time in like a year to share a few photos from my wedding day 10.19.24 🤍 Sarah Jordan Photography did an amazing job.

1/ A special report to kick off the 2024 election cycle: Closed primaries shut out millions of voters, divide Americans into ‘warring camps’ tulsaworld.com/news/state-reg…

This made me so happy. Love you, Madison 🥰

@bethabeyer @USATODAY Omg congratulations!!

Hey y'all! I am super excited to share that I've joined @USATODAY as the Elections and Politics Reporting Fellow for Virginia! It's going to be a blast! Please send tips, jokes and political memes to ebeyerATgannettDOTcom.

"The college football fans who buy it pay more for a single T-shirt than he makes in a day." Really amazing work from my colleague @hayleighcolombo on the conditions faced by factory workers who make our university apparel. omaha.com/news/state-reg…

6 years ago, Mississippi's Supreme Court told judges around the state to file plans saying how they provide lawyers for poor criminal defendants. This summer, the 1st of the state's 23 circuit courts complied. propublica.org/article/missis…

@ellewilson I have not. There’s so many states to look into, and every one I’ve looked at has public defense problems. I haven’t looked at NH in much depth. The Sixth Amendment Center does amazing work though. I’ll have to take a look at that report.

@ehamer7 The PD office and NH Supreme Court commissioned an independent study in 2022 of indigent defense in NH, by the SixthAmendment.org. Have you seen it? I'd have to go back and read it again, but I believe it has data.

Really proud of my first investigative series for Lee Enterprises' Public Service Journalism team. 'Broken Defense' reveals that people's Sixth Amendment right to counsel is routinely violated across the West. First story out today. More to come. #tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">billingsgazette.com/news/national/…

@ellewilson I did some more digging and found a report that says the NH Public Defender had 11,000 open cases July 1 and expected 23,000 annual cases going forward. With 133 attorneys, that's about 250 cases each. But can't compare to the standards without case types. judicialcouncil.nh.gov/sites/g/files/…

@ellewilson The only reason they gave via email was "we are not able to provide caseload data." I should have pushed back on them a little harder.

"The system is completely broken at this point," one Oregon man told me. He sat in jail for 3+ months without a lawyer. Read more about how overburdened public defense systems upend people's lives in my first story on this topic: billingsgazette.com/news/national/…

I found some public defenders who handled upwards of 10x more cases than the maximum under the standards. The @ABAesq says attorneys should "never" exceed national standards. And yet thousands of lawyers are double, triple and quadruple the limit.

Public defenders across America work 3 times more cases than they can effectively handle, new data show. Their overwhelming workloads threaten the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and have devastating impacts on their clients' lives. My latest: tulsaworld.com/news/nation-wo…