ImpactJustice, Politics Justice Department to End All Federal Private Prisons The announcement was made following our yearlong probe uncovering dozens of questionable deaths and years of dire warnings from internal monitors. Seth Freed WesslerAugust 18, 2016
ImpactImmigration, Justice The Feds Will Shut Down a Troubled Private Prison The facility is among several in which our reporting has uncovered dozens of deaths that involved substandard medical care. Seth Freed WesslerAugust 15, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Justice The Fear Industry My weekend of gun training in the desert. Patrick BlanchfieldThe NationAugust 10, 2016
InvestigationEnvironment How Septic Tanks May Imperil an Ecosystem In Florida, one of the nation’s largest waterways is in danger. Lisa Desai & Yasmeen QureshiPBS NewshourAugust 6, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Environment Big Oil Takes Aim at Local Control of Fracking As much as local communities in Colorado may want to ban the process, their hands are tied. Simon Davis-CohenFusionAugust 3, 2016
AnalysisJustice, Labor Whistleblower Retaliation Alive and Well at Hanford Washington state’s attorney general and others filed an emergency motion to force the Department of Energy and a federal contractor to protect workers from toxic vapor exposure at the nuclear cleanup site. Joshua FrankAugust 3, 2016
InvestigationImmigration Good Crop, Bad Crop Workers picking America’s produce face rampant wage theft. The Department of Labor is barely using its toughest tool to stop it. Gabriel ThompsonSlate MagazineAugust 2, 2016
InvestigationJustice Young and Locked Up in Silicon Valley The Santa Clara County district attorney has made a habit of charging 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds as adults. Why? Jessica PishkoSan Francisco MagazineAugust 1, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Justice The Financial Firm That Cornered the Market on Jails Thousands of arrestees a year are forced into get-out-of-jail-broke cards that are loaded up with deceptive fees. Arun GuptaThe NationAugust 1, 2016
InvestigationPolitics What Did $220 Million Buy? Bernie Sanders’s fundraising was revolutionary. How he spent his money was not. Eli Clifton & Joshua HollandSlate MagazineJuly 13, 2016