For stories published by ProPublica, with support from the Fund, Eli Cahan found that dozens of psychiatric hospitals have turned away patients in crisis, in violation of federal law, but have rarely faced consequences from federal oversight authorities. Cahan identified more than 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country that have turned away patients in crisis over the 15 years – ...
With support from the Fund, Rebecca John obtained documents revealing that, as early as 1974, the plastics industry knew its products could not be recycled. For DeSmog, John assessed the relevance of the documents for current treaty negotiations in which fossil fuel-producing nations and companies that help make plastic have lobbied against limits on plastic production. John also examined the ...
Using thousands of police disciplinary records from across New York State gathered with support from the Fund, Sammy Sussman examined a pattern of police officers who were disciplined, but not criminally charged, after they drank and drove. The investigation for New York Focus and The New York Times, where Sussman is a Local Investigations Fellow, focused on the lack of ...
With support from the Fund, Liset Cruz dug into the practice of hospitals transferring undocumented patients back to their home countries for treatment, sometimes without patients’ consent. People who are uninsured, undocumented and have serious or chronic health conditions are most commonly subjected to these “medical deportations,” Cruz reported, and experts say the practice is likely to become more common ...
Grantee Robert McClure documented how a Seattle ordinance led to a surge in tree removals, and he spotlighted analyses by the city showing trouble ahead for a key mechanism to replace felled trees. With support from the Fund, McClure’s reporting in InvestigateWest – distributed nationally by the Associated Press – showed that the city’s plans would not offset the tree ...
With support from the Fund, Aspen Journalism (a local nonprofit news outlet in Colorado) published a three-part series on how public lands in America were acquired, exploited, privatized and protected. The series examined federal budget cuts affecting the White River National Forest, the largest national forest in Colorado and most visited in the nation – looking, in particular, at the ...
With support from the Fund, the Racine County Eye (a local news outlet in Wisconsin) is investigating the case of a man who died in the county jail – and looking more broadly at conditions in the jail and rising costs to operate it. In 2021, Malcolm James died while experiencing a mental health crisis inside the Racine County Jail. ...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, with support from the Fund, documented how Vans, The North Face and Timberland continued sourcing materials from a Fulgent Sun Group factory in Vietnam while Fulgent Sun’s China subsidiary was tied to Xinjiang labor transfers. Using geotagged social videos, state-media records and trade data, TBIJ showed Uyghur and other minorities working at the company well ...
In the latest story in an ongoing investigation into the Milwaukee County district attorney’s list of law enforcement officers with credibility issues, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Ashley Luthern spotlighted a police officer who kept his job after landing on the county’s Brady list due to domestic violence allegations. He later lied under oath and kept his job for two more ...
As part of a broader investigation of conviction integrity units supported by the Fund, New York Focus and Columbia Journalism Investigations examined the New York Attorney General’s conviction review bureau, which was launched in 2012 to review innocence claims from across the state. But the program has fallen short, the investigation found. The bureau does not operate as an independent ...