For decades, the U.S. has run private “shadow prisons” for immigrants convicted of federal crimes. Biden has ordered the government to wind down those contracts.
Author Archives: Sarah Mirk
The bad place
The graffiti says it all: “This is a bad place.” Why do states send children to facilities run by Sequel, after dozens of cases of abuse?
2020 Reveal Highlights and End of Year Impact Report
Reveal empowers the public through investigative journalism and groundbreaking storytelling.
Lost in transplantation
Getting organs to patients waiting for a transplant is a matter of life and death. Yet transportation errors are putting patients in danger.
The uprising
As Americans take to the streets, we hear from the person prosecuting the police officers and remember the history of policing in black communities.
Homewreckers
After the housing bust, these men destroyed the American dream of homeownership. Learn how they did it and what that means for our economy now.
Detained and exposed
Social distancing and hand-washing are meant to keep us safe from the coronavirus. But in immigrant detention centers, those measures are impossible.
Essential workers
Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them?
COVID-19 in the ER
An ER doctor in Seattle gives a firsthand account of treating COVID-19 patients. Plus, an Iraqi man seeks justice for atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison.
The refuge revealed
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.