Your donation helps protect democracy.

DONATE
  • About Us
  • Donate
  • Read
    • Workers’ Rights
      • Behind the Smiles
      • All Work. No Pay.
      • Rape on the Night Shift
      • Insult to Injury
      • Techsploitation
    • Sustainability
      • Climate Change
      • America’s Ring of Fire
      • Environment
      • Flood thy Neighbor
      • Food Security
      • Oil and Mining
      • Pesticides
    • Reproductive Rights
    • Criminal Justice
      • When Abusers Keep Their Guns
      • Mississippi Goddam
      • To Protect and Slur
      • Case Cleared
      • Hate
    • COVID-19
    • Housing
      • Kept Out
    • Immigration
      • Kids on the Line
      • The Disappeared
      • The Wall
    • Voting
  • Listen
  • Watch
    • Victim/Suspect
    • The Grab
  • Local
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Skip to content
  • Read
    • Workers’ Rights
      • Behind the Smiles
      • All Work. No Pay.
      • Rape on the Night Shift
      • Insult to Injury
      • Techsploitation
    • Sustainability
      • Climate Change
      • America’s Ring of Fire
      • Environment
      • Flood thy Neighbor
      • Food Security
      • Oil and Mining
      • Pesticides
    • Reproductive Rights
    • Criminal Justice
      • When Abusers Keep Their Guns
      • Mississippi Goddam
      • To Protect and Slur
      • Case Cleared
      • Hate
    • COVID-19
    • Housing
      • Kept Out
    • Immigration
      • Kids on the Line
      • The Disappeared
      • The Wall
    • Voting
  • Listen
  • Watch
    • Victim/Suspect
    • The Grab
  • Local
Reveal

Reveal

from The Center for Investigative Reporting

  • About Us
  • Donate

juvenile detention

A child’s hands are shown resting in the child’s lap. The child is behind a chain-link fence.
Posted inAccountability

For Decades, ICE Has Detained Immigrant Children Without Explanation. New Documents Pierce its Secrecy.

by Esmy Jimenez September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Records provide the most robust look yet at why and how children ended up in one of ICE’s rare youth detention facilities.

The road on the mural diverges and Danny and Marie are walking and driving down different paths. Narration: Suddenly, their lives began to look drastically different.
Posted inAccountability

Since when is being a teenager a crime?

by Eda Uzunlar August 7, 2021August 7, 2021

A comic explores two diverging paths of juvenile justice in Wyoming and South Dakota.

A collage illustration shows lady justice holding up scales in front of a Wyoming wilderness background. A teenager falls off the scales.
Posted inAccountability

Juvenile (in)justice

Brett Simpson portraitPortrait of steven rascón by Tennessee Watson, Eda Uzunlar, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Steven Rascón, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson August 7, 2021August 10, 2021

Wyoming locks up kids at one of the highest rates in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.

Don’t miss a story. Get our investigations delivered to your inbox.

Processing…
Success! You're on the list.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.
An illustration shows a colorful depiction of a building in purple and gray. Kids paint the phrase The Bad Place on the side of the building.
Posted inAccountability

The bad place

Brett Simpson portrait by Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson May 15, 2021July 1, 2021

The graffiti told a chilling story: “This is a bad place.” More than 40 states have sent children to facilities run by Sequel Youth & Family Services, despite dozens of cases of abuse.

Myon Burrell stares into the camera, pulling his mask down to reveal his face.
Posted inAccountability

The jail tapes in the dumpster

Brett Simpson portrait by Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Brett Simpson, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson April 17, 2021July 1, 2021

A murder conviction sent Myon Burrell to prison for life when he was a teenager. An investigative reporter dug into what seemed a hopeless case. What she found helped free him.

A collage illustration shows lady justice holding up scales in front of a Wyoming wilderness background. A teenager falls off the scales.
Posted inCriminal Justice

Juvenile (in)justice

Brett Simpson portrait by Tennessee Watson, Eda Uzunlar, Taki Telonidis, Amy Mostafa, Brett Simpson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson March 20, 2021July 1, 2021

Wyoming locks up kids at the highest rate in the nation. A mother tells the story of how her daughter’s fight snowballed into incarceration and tragedy.

Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Prisons

Pushed out

by Kevin Sullivan, Jen Chien, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Priska Neely, Al Letson and Ko Bragg November 19, 2019July 1, 2021

Black girls are being pushed out of school and into jails at alarming rates, but this issue often is overlooked.

Posted inU.S. Education

Virginia drops felony charges against sixth-grade boy with autism

by Susan Ferriss March 15, 2016June 30, 2021

A Virginia juvenile court has dropped charges against Kayleb Moon-Robinson, a sixth-grader with autism whose rough arrest on felony charges was the focus of a Center for Public Integrity investigation into questionable school policing.

Reveal
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Reveal
P.O. Box 8307
Emeryville, CA 94662
510-809-3160

Reveal is a registered trademark of The Center for Investigative Reporting.

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Pitching Reveal
  • Republish Reveal’s Content
  • Donate
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Corrections
  • Reveal on Apple Podcasts
  • Reveal Episode Archive
  • Audio RSS
  • RSS
  • Newsletter
  • Inside the Newsroom
  • Press Releases
  • Brand Assets
© 2023 The Center for Investigative Reporting. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic