After being reunified, the children under 5 and their parents will be released if they were being held in immigration custody.
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.
This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps
There’s a reason Community Cafe’s prices are so low.
Government has deported 19 parents without their children
The government says it doesn’t know the whereabouts many of the detained children’s mothers and fathers.
Lawsuit: The forced drugging of migrant children is illegal
The new lawsuit builds on last week’s Reveal investigation, adding new cases of alleged abuse.
‘We are a country of laws’: Judge orders families reunited
“This situation has reached a crisis level,” U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw writes in his emergency order.
Government says immediate family reunification would ‘cause confusion’
The ACLU has asked a federal court to make the government unify families within the next 30 days.
ACLU asks judge to reunite children with their parents within one month
More than 2,300 migrant children have been separated since the Trump administration unveiled its “zero tolerance” policy in April.
Administrator at rogue NC rehab accused of sexually harassing clients
The sexual harassment allegations are the latest disclosure in an ongoing Reveal investigation into exploitative rehab programs across the country.
Inside a rehab empire
Reveal reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter have been uncovering the ways that some drug rehabs exploit their desperate clients.
Response to NC rehab investigation: ‘This is a horrific scheme that preys on people at their lowest’
North Carolina officials looked the other way for years until reporters began asking questions.