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from The Center for Investigative Reporting

Amy Julia Harris

Reporter

Amy Julia Harris is a reporter for Reveal, covering vulnerable communities. She and Reveal reporter Shoshana Walter exposed how courts across the country are sending defendants to rehabs that are little more than lucrative work camps for private industry. Their work was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting and won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. It also led to four government investigations, including two criminal probes and four federal class-action lawsuits alleging slavery and fraud.

Harris was a Livingston Award for Young Journalists finalist for her investigation into the lack of government oversight of religious-based day cares, which led to tragedies for children in Alabama and elsewhere. In a previous project for Reveal, she uncovered widespread squalor in a public housing complex in the San Francisco Bay Area and traced it back to mismanagement and fraud in the troubled public housing agency.

Before joining Reveal, Harris was an education reporter at The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. She has also written for The Seattle Times, Half Moon Bay Review, and Campaigns and Elections Politics Magazine.

aharris@revealnews.org
aharris@revealnews.org 626-607-5186 amyjharris
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line

Half of youngest separated migrants will be reunited by Tuesday, government tells judge

by Amy Julia Harris July 9, 2018July 9, 2018

After being reunified, the children under 5 and their parents will be released if they were being held in immigration custody.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality

This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter July 9, 2018June 30, 2021

There’s a reason Community Cafe’s prices are so low.

Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line

Government has deported 19 parents without their children

by Amy Julia Harris July 7, 2018November 29, 2018

The government says it doesn’t know the whereabouts many of the detained children’s mothers and fathers.

Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line

Lawsuit: The forced drugging of migrant children is illegal

by Amy Julia Harris June 29, 2018November 29, 2018

The new lawsuit builds on last week’s Reveal investigation, adding new cases of alleged abuse.

Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line

‘We are a country of laws’: Judge orders families reunited

by Amy Julia Harris June 26, 2018June 27, 2018

“This situation has reached a crisis level,” U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw writes in his emergency order.

Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line

Government says immediate family reunification would ‘cause confusion’

by Amy Julia Harris June 26, 2018June 26, 2018

The ACLU has asked a federal court to make the government unify families within the next 30 days.

Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line

ACLU asks judge to reunite children with their parents within one month

by Amy Julia Harris June 25, 2018November 29, 2018

More than 2,300 migrant children have been separated since the Trump administration unveiled its “zero tolerance” policy in April.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality

Administrator at rogue NC rehab accused of sexually harassing clients

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter June 14, 2018June 30, 2021

The sexual harassment allegations are the latest disclosure in an ongoing Reveal investigation into exploitative rehab programs across the country.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality

Inside a rehab empire

by Reveal staff, Shoshana Walter and Amy Julia Harris May 31, 2018June 30, 2021

Reveal reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter have been uncovering the ways that some drug rehabs exploit their desperate clients.

https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/InsideARehabEmpire.mp3
Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality

Response to NC rehab investigation: ‘This is a horrific scheme that preys on people at their lowest’

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter May 21, 2018November 29, 2018

North Carolina officials looked the other way for years until reporters began asking questions.

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