Brett Meyers, Author at Reveal

Prisons

Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires

by Michael Montgomery, Najib Aminy, Cynthia Rodriguez, Jenny Casas, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Steven Rascón, Taki Telonidis, Brett Meyers and Al Letson September 17, 2022September 29, 2022

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.

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Voting

The Big Grift Behind the Big Lie

by Cassandra Jaramillo, Nadia Hamdan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Brett Meyers, Taki Telonidis, Andy Donohue, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kathryn Styer Martínez and Steven Rascón September 10, 2022September 14, 2022

The group True the Vote has collected millions off spreading “the big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.

All Work. No Pay.

American Rehab: A Venomous Snake

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Julia Harris, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Brett Meyers, Andy Donohue, Esther Kaplan, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson August 27, 2022September 13, 2022

After amassing a small fortune, Synanon turns from a revolutionary rehab into a violent cult with mass sterilizations and a rattlesnake in a mailbox.

Accountability

American Rehab: A Desperate Call

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Julia Harris, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Gabriel Hongsdusit, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Brett Meyers, Esther Kaplan, Andy Donohue, Matt Thompson, Amanda Pike, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson August 20, 2022August 19, 2022

Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.

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Accountability

My Neighbor the Suspected War Criminal

by Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Meyers, Andy Donohue, Amy Mostafa, Nikki Frick, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Jess Alvarenga, Taki Telonidis and Shawn Musgrave August 6, 2022August 5, 2022

There may be 1,700 suspected war criminals and human rights abusers in the U.S. Who are they, and what is the government doing about it?

Guns

No Retreat: The Dangers of Stand Your Ground

by Jonathan Jones, Nadia Hamdan, Queena Sook Kim, Brett Meyers, Nina Martin, Maryam Saleh, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Nikki Frick, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Kathryn Styer Martínez, Taki Telonidis and Al Letson July 30, 2022August 17, 2022

In the decade since George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, stand your ground laws have expanded across the nation. And with them come more homicides.