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Office of Justice Programs (OJP) / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) Resource Page

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the U.S. Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established this Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) to coordinate Federal initiatives to strengthen MDI systems and support death investigation services practiced by medical examiner and coroner offices (MECs) across the United States. The MDI-IWG commenced in...

Finding the Missing in Indian Country

Juanita Adams
Juanita Adams

It seems prescient that Juanita Adams' Lakota name, Omani Wi, means "woman on the longest walk." Because her last journey took 30 years—until she reached her final resting place with her family, in South Dakota's Badlands on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, Juanita was 19 years old when she left Pine Ridge in 1978 to join the American Indian...

ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT ANNOUNCES BULLETPROOF VEST SAFETY INITIATIVE

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ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT ANNOUNCES
BULLETPROOF VEST SAFETY INITIATIVE

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General Ashcroft today announced a Department of Justice initiative to address the reliability of body armor used by law enforcement personnel and to examine the future of bullet-resistant technology and testing. The men and women of law enforcement...