From Ana Arana for El Daily Post: her team’s two-part investigation of drug trafficking and policing in Ciudad Juarez, once the murder capital of the world, pinpoints how and why the violence came to an end, but also describes a fragile peace that may be a temporary illusion. Click here to read part one and part two. [Reporting sponsored by ...
From Adriana Cardona-Maguigad, a fellow at the Social Justice News Nexus, at Northwestern University, reporting for This American Life and WBEZ-Chicago: the government of Puerto Rico buys one-way tickets to send drug addicts to Chicago, with promises of drug treatment and housing. But the addicts get no treatment and no housing. If they want to go back home, they’re on their own. ...
From Kent Paterson for Frontera NorteSur, part one of an investigation of the legacy of a demolished 100-year old plant in El Paso Texas. The Asarco smelter is gone but the metal contamination in surrounding neighborhoods lives on. In part two and part three, Paterson investigates the impact on workers’ health. [Reporting sponsored by The Park Foundation.] Photo credit: Bob Chessey ...
From Michael Blanding and Heather White for Wired, the story of workers at many electronics factories in China: exposed to toxic industrial chemicals, then abused by the workers’ compensation system. Responsibility is buried along many tiers of sub-contractors. Heather White’s video dramatizes the human cost. [Reporting sponsored by The Green Park Foundation.] Photo credit: Sim Chi Yin ...
From Caitlin McNally for the New Orleans Advocate: In Louisiana, the decision to try a juvenile as an adult depends on the Parish where the crime took place, and the prosecutor in charge. At stake: adult sentences are longer; prison time is served with adult criminals. McNally reports on the fate of one teen charged with armed robbery. View the ...
From Kate Pastor, for City Limits, a series on Bronx Housing Court, overwhelmed with cases, with little help available for tenants about to lose their housing. [Reporting sponsored by The Gannett Foundation.] Photo credit: Adi Talwar ...
In a column for the New York Times, Marcus Stern explains why oil trains keep blowing up across America. A 2014 investigation of the train explosions by Stern and Sebastian Jones for InsideClimate News, the Weather Channel, and the Investigative Fund was financed, in part, by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Park Foundation. Photo credit: Jason Rudge / ...
From Jeff Kelly Lowenstein for the Center for Public Integrity and Hoy Chicago, an investigation of nursing homes’ staffing levels. Lowenstein found that most nursing homes tell different stories to the public and to the government. They tell the public that staffing levels are higher than what they report on official documents filed with the federal government. Read more. [Reporting ...
From the San Francisco Public Press: a series on the difficulty fulfilling a 10-year-old promise of finding homes for the city’s neediest residents, and why the jail has become the city’s psychiatric institution of last resort. [Reporting sponsored by The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.] Photo credit: Anna Vignet ...
From Jason Berry, for GlobalPost, a story about the limits to Pope Francis’ power to make good on his pledge of “zero tolerance” towards clergy who abuse children. In a follow-up piece, Berry explores the issues surrounding demands for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. [Reporting sponsored by The Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation.] ...