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Alysia Santo

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Alysia Santo is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. Her investigative reporting on the criminal justice system has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Livingston Award in both 2016 and 2017 and a runner-up for the 2016 John Jay College/H.F. Guggenheim Prize for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting.

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Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice

The victims who don’t count

by Alysia Santo September 13, 2018June 30, 2021

Seven states won’t give victim aid to people with criminal histories. The policies fall hardest on black families.

Posted inHealth Care

The messy truth about victim compensation

by Cheryl Devall, Alysia Santo, Kevin Sullivan, Mwende Hinojosa, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda September 8, 2018June 30, 2021

Victim compensation funds are supposed to help victims of crime. African Americans are disproportionately hurt by how that money is handed out.

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