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Grantee probes high rate of suicide in Wyoming’s jails

In an investigation for Wyofile, reporter Shane Sanderson found that Wyoming’s jails are among the nation’s deadliest for inmate suicide. ...

Author finds her own family’s history entangled with government taking of Native land

In an excerpt in Time from her new book, “The Cost of Free Land,” Rebecca Clarren explores the “blank spaces around the ...

Grantee investigation of forced labor in Chinese seafood industry sparks federal hearing

While the U.S. has passed laws to restrict goods produced with forced labor in China, one sector – the seafood ...

Idaho’s publicly funded “troubled teen” system ignored extensive abuse of girls, grantee finds; Legislature looking into oversight

A new report in InvestigateWest, with support from the Fund, found extensive evidence of rape, sexual assault, race-based harassment and ...

Dwindling enrollment in Pittsburgh schools widens spending and education gaps, grantee finds

As the Pittsburgh public school system struggles with dwindling student enrollment, reporter Lajja Mistry, writing for Public Source, revealed the ...

Major law firms aid Trump and his network and are paid by political donations, grantee finds

Massoglia also investigated the extensive spending by former President Donald Trump’s political operation after it paid over $44 million to ...

Billionaire couple uses dark money system to fund misinformation and election denial, grantees reveal

As part of Open Secrets’ ongoing investigation into the money behind election misinformation, reporters Olivia Buckley and Anna Massoglia charted ...

Grantee reveals unexplained deaths in Maine’s guardianship system

Following up on a June investigation that showed that Maine’s probate courts failed to closely track vulnerable adults under public guardianship, Samantha ...

Grantee profiles a Hawaii father wrongly accused of child abuse as part of ongoing series

As part of Honolulu Civil Beat’s investigation of the state’s system for removing children from their parents, reporter John Hill, ...

Grantee finds little regulation for chemicals lurking in Pennsylvania town’s drinking water

Natasha Gilbert investigated complaints of contaminated drinking water in Industry, Pa., a small community near Pittsburgh where residents have lived ...