For decades, there’s been little hope for people sentenced to life in prison in the United States. But, as Sylvia A. Harvey reported for the Imprint, “second look” laws are revisiting lengthy sentences handed down to people who committed major crimes while they were younger than 25. With support from the Fund, Harvey looked at how the prospects for a ...
Emails obtained by InvestigateWest reveal a cozy relationship between federal Environmental Protection Agency officials and mining companies operating in Butte, Montana, a jarring reminder of the ways regulators and industry work closely together, at times against the public’s interests. Reporter Wilson Criscione, with support from the Fund, examined reams of documents that detailed EPA coordination with the very companies they’re ...
Leaders and members of the Bethany Slavic Missionary Church in Sacramento and other Slavic churches in the U.S. have invested more than $14.5 million in health care companies founded by church leaders. Documents obtained by Ruslan Gurzhiy, founder and editor-in-chief of SlavicSac.com, show that top church officials helped form the companies and that shareholders were often barred from selling their stakes. ...
The Hawaii legislature is considering several bills to protect the constitutional rights of parents suspected of abuse and neglect. The measures would dramatically narrow the rules for when children can be taken from their parents without a judge’s order. The legislation comes after extensive reporting by Honolulu Civil Beat’s John Hill and colleagues, with support from the Fund. Civil Beat’s ...
Acting on a tip, Naveena Sadasivam and Clayton Aldern investigated how a plant owned by billionaire Bill Koch tried to distort data about emissions of dangerous sulfur dioxide in Port Arthur, Texas. Reporting for Grist with support from the Fund, they found that soon after the state installed a monitor at the plant, the company set up an alert system ...