Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

Report: Nearly Half Of All Federal Terror Cases Involve Federal Informants

“[M]any of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”

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Par Frederick Reese

In a recent Pew Research poll, when rated on a “feeling thermometer,” which measures the “warmness” the average American feels toward a particular religion, 41 percent of all respondents rated Islam on the coldest part of the thermometer. This is one percentage point higher than what Americans rated atheism. While this may reflect simply that there

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DOJ: FedEx Knowingly Trafficked Controlled Substances, Prescription Drugs

Amid the DOJ’s allegations, FedEx says there’s no way it can assume legal responsibility for the millions of packages it moves daily, nor violate customers’ privacy.

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Par Frederick Reese

FedEx is in hot water with the U.S. government for allegedly conspiring to traffic controlled substances and misbranded prescription drugs sold by illegal Internet pharmacies. For its alleged role in trafficking drugs from online pharmacies, the Department of Justice on July 17 asked a federal grand jury in San Francisco to indict FedEx Corp.,

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HIV Detected In Previously “Cured” “Mississippi Baby”

« Scientifically, this development reminds us that we still have much more to learn about the intricacies of HIV infection and where the virus hides in the body,” researcher says.

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Par Frederick Reese
AP Was There - AIDS Cause

Eighteen months ago, a then-two-year-old child offered the first true glimmer of hope in eradicating HIV in children. Following an abnormal and accelerated treatment regimen in which the baby -- who had not been diagnosed with HIV at the time, but was suspected of carrying the virus because her mother had been HIV-positive during the pregnancy

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New York State Wants To Heavily Regulate Bitcoin Trading

The proposal would establish a mandatory “BitLicense” for any company involved with the buying, selling, mining or trading of cryptocurrencies.

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Par Frederick Reese
bitcoin

In a move that has upset many in the bitcoin community, New York has become the first state to issue guidelines for the regulation of the trade and storage of bitcoins and other virtual currencies. With New York City being the hub of the nation’s financial network, state regulators introduced the new rules in an attempt to introduce safeguards to

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Excessive Overtime Pay For Correction Officers Prompt Concerns Over Undermanned Prison System

Correction officers are accruing alarming levels of overtime — and overtime pay — at the country’s understaffed, overcrowded correctional facilities.

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Par Frederick Reese
WOODS

Like many states during the recession that followed the banking crisis of 2007, Alabama was forced to make budget cuts for many of its departments, including its correctional system. During fiscal year 2011 to 2013, as reported by AL.com, the state slashed more than $12.6 million in salaries. Coupled with cuts in recruitment and retention programs,

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Border Crisis Reflects Consequences Of Good Intentions

Hoping to protect child sex trafficking victims, the Bush administration required hearings for underage migrants, but it’s created a backlog and an increasingly complex crisis.

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Par Frederick Reese
Immigration Overload-Nogales

The crisis unfolding on the Mexican-American border is growing increasingly complex in terms of both human and political costs, with at least 57,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America having crossed the border illegally since October and with that number likely to exceed 90,000 by the end of the year. With space to house the migrants in

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Senate Republicans Block Bill To Overturn Hobby Lobby Decision

Senate Republicans log another victory for the intersection of corporate personhood and religious freedoms.

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Par Frederick Reese
Supreme Court Birth Control

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the passage of legislation aimed at curtailing some of the ramifications of last month’s Supreme Court ruling on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (formerly, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby), which ruled that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, closely-held corporations are exempt from legislated actions that would

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