Texas Tribune, ProPublica, Military Times

Military Injustice 

The investigation revealed that soldiers accused of sexual assault are less than half as likely to be placed in pretrial confinement than those accused of offenses like drug use and distribution, disobeying an officer or burglary, and that soldiers charged with severe crimes were increasingly allowed to leave the military rather than face trial. Months of reporting, including unprecedented analysis of the Army’s court-martial database, revealed that a 2021 overhaul of the military justice system had left major gaps in prosecution of sexual assault. A U.S. representative on the Armed Services Committee found the reporting ‘eye-opening’ and called for congressional hearings to examine pretrial confinement.