Commentary Culture Investigations

Webster & Flynn, ProPublica 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released,…

Stephanie McCrummen, Atlantic Horrific crimes have always attracted attention, but the women who have filled the courtroom are seeking something beyond spectacle.

Jacob Silverman, ICIJ Financial records obtained by ICIJ show that they included individuals later accused of or sanctioned for money laundering and other financial crimes.

Joanna Slater, WaPo Federal judges are operating in an “increasingly hostile landscape of threats, harassment and intimidation” and require more resources for their protection.

Sovereignty mattered. Fish mattered. Cost mattered.

This project was produced in partnership with Hell Gate, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. Judges wield enormous power. Here in the five boroughs, they are often the ultimate arbiters in deciding how many New Yorkers get sent to Rikers Island, where and how new housing will be built, and when children are removed […]
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For a story that aired nationally on NPR, Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos investigated emotional abuse in college sports. With support from the Fund, they reported that researchers have found that athletes experience emotional abuse – a toxic pattern of verbal attacks, manipulation and/or controlling actions – more than any other form of harm. Yet, […]
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With a follow-up grant from the Fund after his initial investigation last year, Luke Mullins reported for Washingtonian Magazine that conditions inside the Psychiatric Institute of Washington are even worse than previously known. Mullins spoke to a former employee at the facility who was sexually assaulted on the job by a patient, for which the […]
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For more than a year, reporters at New York Focus and Hell Gate, with support from the Fund, have been reporting on a flood of sexual-abuse lawsuits filed by people held in New York state prisons. The two outlets have filed public-records requests for the personnel records of state prison staff named in the lawsuits […]
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Jeremy Portnoy, RCInvestigations Oklahoma’s largest school district allegedly paid $2.6 million to a company owned by one of its executives — for architectural work that was never…