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Seeking Exposé, Students End Up in Handcuffs

Seeking Exposé, Students End Up in Handcuffs

Uli Seit for The New York Times

Paula Pecorella, the managing editor of the student newspaper at West Islip High School, and Nicholas Krauss, the features editor, were prosecuted for trespassing while working on an article on the school's security procedures.

“As the cold metal cuffs were tightened around our wrists,” the article began, “it was clear that we were in way over our heads.”