In an investigation for Wyofile, reporter Shane Sanderson found that Wyoming’s jails are among the nation’s deadliest for inmate suicide. Sanderson found that 22 inmates had died by suicide in Wyoming’s jails over a decade, the fourth-highest rate in the country. With support from the Fund, WyoFile requested records from the sheriffs of each Wyoming county, asking for details on ...
In an excerpt in Time from her new book, “The Cost of Free Land,” Rebecca Clarren explores the “blank spaces around the edges” of her own immigrant forebears’ acquisition of land in the American west and their rise to the American middle class. Her research found that her family’s history was linked to the appropriation of land by the U.S. government from ...
While the U.S. has passed laws to restrict goods produced with forced labor in China, one sector – the seafood industry – has escaped scrutiny, a new investigation found. With a grant from the Fund, Ian Urbina and a team from the Outlaw Ocean Project reviewed hundreds of pages of internal company newsletters, trade data, local news reports and satellite ...
A new report in InvestigateWest, with support from the Fund, found extensive evidence of rape, sexual assault, race-based harassment and attempted suicide in a publicly funded residential facility for vulnerable girls and young women in Idaho – and a lack of oversight of the company that owns the facility. Girls ages 11 to 17 live in the facility; most have ...