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Head of Idaho prison system outlines reforms after grantee reporting exposed abuses

After InvestigateWest, with support from the Fund, uncovered widespread sexual abuse in Idaho prisons, the state’s Department of Corrections is ...

Grantee film about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance

“Seized,” a feature documentary about the police raid on a Kansas newspaper, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in ...

Grantee investigation prompts state changes to protect underage farmworkers

Following an investigation by Robert Lopez, with support from the Fund, which found that children are working in unsafe conditions ...

Grantee launches statewide effort to document missing/murdered Indigenous cases in South Dakota

South Dakota Searchlight, with support from the Fund, is cataloging Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) cases in the state, ...

In sweeping yearlong investigation, grantees probe Chicago agencies’ efforts to conceal public information

When a pair of journalists in Chicago both received questionable rejections for open-records requests, they asked the Fund to support ...

Public-lands grazing program benefits billionaires, amid poor federal oversight and a negative impact on Western states, grantee finds

The federal government’s public-lands grazing system gives private livestock operators access to more than 370,000 square miles of public land ...

Grantee probes reports that U.S. helicopters are used to kill civilians in Philippines

The Philippine military is using aircraft it received in U.S.-sanctioned arms deals to target civilians and political opponents under the ...

Grantee examines how Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis

For Rolling Stone, and with support from the Fund, Sean Patrick Cooper dug into the impact of Amazon’s rapidly expanding ...

Grantee documents continued problems in Chicago’s newly merged shelter system for homeless people and migrants

Two years after Borderless uncovered inhumane conditions and the death of a five-year-old boy at a city-run shelter in Chicago, ...

Big Los Angeles landlords avoid low-income Section 8 tenants, despite state law, grantee reveals

Some of Los Angeles’ largest landlords skirt anti-discrimination laws that are supposed to protect low-income people applying for apartments, according ...