InvestigationJustice Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions Years after a federal court declared the practice unconstitutional, judges continue to take money from criminal defendants. Some spend it on resort stays, luxury cars. Garrett HazelwoodWWNOJanuary 31, 2024
InvestigationBusiness, Labor A Death at Walmart Janikka Perry never made it home from her shift at the bakery of a supercenter in Arkansas. She was one of many Walmart workers who have been pressured to work through illness or pain, sometimes with devastating consequences. Jasper CravenNew RepublicJanuary 16, 2024
InvestigationPolitics The Eric Adams Table of Success Mayor Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” Who’s at the table? How are they related? Why do they matter? Christopher Robbins, Esther Wang, Max Rivlin-Nadler, Nick Pinto, Adlan Jackson & Katie WayHell GateDecember 18, 2023
InvestigationJustice The Truth Behind The Experimental Therapy That Kids Say Starts With ‘Legalized Kidnapping’ Hundreds of children across the U.S. have been sent into controversial treatment programs where they’re cut off from the parent they trust and forced to live with the one they fear. Olivia Gentile, Erica Berenstein & Mark Adam MillerBusiness Insider, Retro Report on PBSNovember 6, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment, Justice The Climate Crisis Is Pushing Washington’s Prisons to the Brink Why not let people out? Sarah Sax & Christopher BlackwellHigh Country NewsNovember 1, 2023
InvestigationEnvironment, Politics The New Cold War in the Arctic Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong. Adam FedermanIn These TimesOctober 30, 2023
InvestigationJustice Anatomy of a Police Shooting Documents shed light on the events that culminated in the police killing of teenager Donnell Rochester. Baynard WoodsBaltimore BeatOctober 17, 2023
InvestigationJustice, Politics Prisoners Say New Jersey’s Alternative To Solitary Confinement Is Pretty Much The Same Progressives celebrated a 2019 law meant to reform solitary confinement. But the state’s Department of Corrections doesn’t seem to be following it. Christopher Blackwell & Nina ZweigHuffPostOctober 7, 2023
InvestigationHealth, Immigration A Hidden System of Exploitation Underpins US Hospitals’ Employment of Foreign Nurses Faced with an unprecedented staffing crisis, some hospitals are turning to a captive workforce. Aurora AlmendralQuartzOctober 2, 2023
InvestigationHealth, Immigration An Exodus of Nurses Has Caused a “Medical Brain Drain” in Nigeria. Are Rich Countries to Blame? The US and Europe are drawing healthcare workers from countries that can least afford to lose them. Aurora AlmendralQuartzSeptember 29, 2023