2001 JOHN KAMAU — British Bombs Cause Mayhem, reporting on deaths and injuries in rural Kenya caused by munitions used in military training exercises, was published in the June 2001 issue of New Africa magazine. The magazine is available at www.africicasia.com/icpubs although at last check this article was not available online. Another story, Cover-up of British Bombs, published by Rights ...
2001 CHARLES BANDA — Investigated deplorable prison conditions in southern Malawi in eighteen articles published in the newspaper African Witness. The stories detailed widespread cases of disease, malnutrition, extreme over-crowding, rape and murder. In August the president of Malawi released 880 prisoners in an effort to relieve conditions. Banda has received the second half of his grant but is continuing ...
2001 LEAH SAMUEL — Reported on illegal and irregular management practices of the Detroit Public Library system in a story published by the Michigan Citizen. Among other things, Samuel revealed that the library’s general fund account is chronically overdrawn, that money is spent without contracts or proper records and that the system operates with virtually no public oversight. ...
2001 KEN SILVERSTEIN — U.S. Oil Politics in “The Kuwait of Africa” investigated the pillaging of Equatorial Guinea by U.S. oil companies. The article was the cover story in The Nation . ...
2001 KATY RECKDAHL — Continued her periodic series on the juvenile justice system in Louisiana for the Gambit weekly newspaper with an account of the system’s faltering effort to deal with girls, who now account for one of every four juveniles arrested. In October she wrote about allegations of abuse at the Tallulah juvenile prison. ...
2001 KENT PATERSON — Investigated the Bush administration’s attempt to relax restraints on the training of Mexican police officers by U.S. law enforcement agencies. The proposed changes would allow “thugs and murderers” into the system and revive practices of torture and disappearance. His story was produced for the Pacific News Service. ...
2000 Black Mass, The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil’s Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill is the story of John Connolly, an agent in the FBI’s Boston office, and James “Whitey” Bulger, godfather of the Irish mob. They grew up together and Connolly had a scheme to bring Bulger into the FBI fold and put himself into ...
2000 Red Mafiya – How The Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert Friedman is an investigative book exposing Russian organized crime, its growing power in the United States and how it has infiltrated US banks and brokerage houses. Published in May 2000 by Little Brown. ...
2000 Story investigating lung cancer research, the reluctance of US hospitals to use CT scans to identify lung tumors in their earliest stages and the indifference toward lung cancer victims by Tinker Ready in the July 11 Boston Globe. ...
2000 Special issue documenting the plight of African American males in Chicago supported by graphics depicting their education level, unemployment, life expectancy and parenthood. Published in the April issue of The Chicago Reporter it paints a grim picture of a group in crisis. ...