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- Sick on the Inside
- Behind bars in immigrant-only prisons.
- - Seth Freed Wessler
  - Reveal
  - Feb 6, 2016
- Stretched Thin
- Personal trainers are frequently overworked, undertrained, and underpaid by their gyms.
- - James Hannaham
  - Slate Magazine
  - Jan 6, 2016

- Marco Rubio's Billionaire Backers
- The freshman senator has gone beyond other candidates in tailoring a foreign-policy platform that appeals to moneyed hawks.
- - Eli Clifton
  - The Nation
  - Dec 11, 2015
- The Kissing Bug Disease
- Does the World Health Organization's pay-to-play regulatory system inhibit innovation?
- - Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
  - Al Jazeera America
  - Dec 9, 2015

- Forced Meds at the Bellevue ER
- Doctors in Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room routinely order forced injections to sedate patients who refuse to have blood drawn
- - Ben Hattem
  - City Limits
  - Dec 8, 2015
- Homeland Insecurity
- How to run drugs, smuggle migrants, and get away with it at America's biggest law enforcement agency.
- - Melissa del Bosque and Patrick Michels
  - The Texas Observer
  - Dec 7, 2015

- What About Us?
- Nearly 3 million kids have a parent in prison. They're fast losing the right to family visits.
- - Sylvia A. Harvey
  - The Nation
  - Dec 2, 2015
- The Drug Rep Will See You Now
- Pharmaceutical sales reps are screening people in India in return for prescriptions for their products. Welcome to "corporate social responsibility."
- - Frederik Joelving
  - British Medical Journal
  - Dec 2, 2015

- The Stealth Attack on Abortion Access
- Public funds are supporting religious nonprofits that obstruct women's access to health care
- - Meaghan Winter
  - The New York Times
  - Nov 12, 2015
- Walgreens vs. the American Dream
- Walgreens classifies many employees as overtime exempt even though they should qualify for after-hours pay — and they may earn less than hourly employees working under them.
- - Virginia Sole-Smith
  - Newsweek
  - Nov 5, 2015

- A Death Sentence in Mississippi
- Do prosecutors care more about a conviction than executing the right person?
- - Spencer Woodman
  - Vice
  - Oct 5, 2015
- The Duggars' Ties with a Troubled Ministry
- The family became poster children for the Institute in Basic Life Principles, an insular evangelical ministry whose founder resigned in disgrace.
- - Sarah Posner
  - Talking Points Memo
  - Sep 10, 2015

- In Harm's Way
- Seeking medical care, female Rikers inmates say they faced sexual abuse.
- - Erika Eichelberger
  - The Intercept
  - Sep 10, 2015
- World Bank Does Little for Imperiled Villagers
- Has the bank allowed its borrowers to crack down on critics?
- - Bopha Phorn, Michael W. Hudson, Barry Yeoman and Ben Hallman
  - ICIJ
  - Sep 10, 2015

Seth Freed Wessler
The 25 Men Whose Lives Ended Under Questionable Circumstances
Medical doctors agreed that inadequate care likely contributed to the premature deaths of these men inside the Bureau of Prison's private facilities.

Lyric R. Cabral and Elizabeth Lo Win Inaugural Investigative Fund Documentary Fellowship
Launched with the support of JustFilms at the Ford Foundation, The Investigative Fund Fellowship in Documentary Film awards projects that promise to address pressing social issues through investigative documentary filmmaking.

The Backstory: Meaghan Winter
Winter discusses tracking down sources while investigating the rise of crisis pregnancy centers in the US.

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