STORIES

Selected Stories

• How a Probation Violation Turns Into Indefinite Jail Time (The Nation)
• Nine Solitary Studies: Over 11,000 people incarcerated at the Federal Bureau of Prisons spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. The BOP wants to keep examining the issue. (The American Prospect)
• When “Suicide Watch” Becomes a Death Sentence (The Nation)
• New Jail, Same Problems: Why Cleveland Is Resisting Plans for a 'Modern' Detention Center (The Appeal)
• San Quentin Is Still Punishing People for Being Sick (Cross-Published in The American Prospect & Type Investigations, co-authored with Juan Moreno Haines)
• America’s Rural-Jail-Death Problem (The Atlantic)
• The Supreme Court Said Their Sentencing Was Unconstitutional. But They’re Still Behind Bars. (In These Times)
• Inside One Lawyer’s Quest to End Solitary Confinement (Rolling Stone)
• John Pace and His Friends Expected to Die in Prison. Then The Men, Who'd Been Sentenced to Life as Juveniles, Were Freed. (The Nation)
• Curtis Brooks Didn't Kill Anyone. So Why Is He Labeled a Murderer For Life? (Cross-Published on The Appeal and Slate)
• Juvenile Offenders in New York Find Parole a Distant Hope (Village Voice)
• The False Hope of Parole (The Outline)
• At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be a Death Sentence (In These Times, co-authored with James Ridgeway)
• Adam Hall Tried to Kill Himself in Prison. And Got Six More Years. (Village Voice, co-authored with James Ridgeway)

Historical Stories

• Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child Labor Protections (Truthout)
• Florence Kelley and the Feminist Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s (Unfolding History: Library of Congress Blog)
• Why Does the U.S. Sentence Children to Life in Prison? (JSTOR Daily)

Stories About the Trump Administration

• Trump and Musk Are Trying to Dismantle Social Security From the Inside (Truthout)
• Another DC Plane Collision Puts Trump and Musk’s FAA Cuts in the Spotlight (Truthout)
• Musk’s Coup at the Treasury Has Been Ruled Illegal. Will That Stop Him? (Truthout)
• The EPA Has Suffered Decades of Attacks — But Trump’s Are the Worst Yet (Truthout)
• Trump Aims to Overhaul the FDA. What Does That Mean for Public Health? (Truthout)

Other Reporting

• “Death Is Different”: Why Two Men Are Fighting Against Biden’s Commutation (The Nation)
• Even CA Moved Right With Pro-Prison Ballot Measure Funded by Retail Giants (Truthout)
• Corporations Plunder US West’s Water Amid Worst Drought in 1,200 Years (Truthout)
• It’s Not Just Big Pharma: Meet the Middlemen Blocking Access to Medication (Truthout)
• With Stunning Irony, Environmental Review Is Being Used to Block Climate Action (Truthout)
• Nursing Home Owners Are Fighting New York Law That Prioritizes Patient Care (Truthout)
• Far Right GOP Now Champions Jail Reforms — But Only for January Sixers (Cross-Published on Solitary Watch and Truthout)
• Activists Put Solitary Confinement on Ballot, But Local Elections Board Nixed It (Truthout)
• Ron DeSantis’s Ousting of Elected Official Sets a Dangerous Precedent (Truthout)
• Covid-Fueled Solitary Confinement Still Plagues Prisons and Jails (Cross-Published on Solitary Watch and Truthout, co-authored with Allison Altshule)
• Executive Inaction: States and the Federal Government Fail to Use Commutations as a Release Mechanism (Prison Policy Initiative, co-authored with Naila Awan)
• It’s All About the Incentives: Why a Call Home From a Jail in New York State Costs 7 Times More than a Call From the State’s Prisons (Prison Policy Initiative, co-authored with Andrea Fenster)
• How Not to Fight a Prison Pandemic (Solitary Watch, co-authored with Juan Moreno Haines)
• Incarcerated People and Corrections Staff Should Be Prioritized in COVID-19 Vaccination Plans (Prison Policy Initiative)
• As COVID-19 Spreads Through Prisons, Solitary Confinement Is Used to Punish Whistleblowers and Suppress Protests (Solitary Watch, co-authored with Valerie Kiebala)
• Out of Prison, Into Alt-Prison: The Industry Profiting From Prison Halfway Houses (In These Times)
• US Jails Will Become Death Traps in the Coronavirus Pandemic (The Guardian, co-authored with Jean Casella)
• In Largest Action to Date Against Solitary Confinement, Hundreds Gather in Albany to Push Reform Legislation (Solitary Watch)
• De Blasio Wants Rigorous Algorithm Oversight—With Exceptions For The NYPD (Gothamist)
• Massachusetts Department of Correction Gives a Lesson in How to Get Around Solitary Confinement Reforms (Solitary Watch)
• The Largest Commutation in U.S. History (Slate)
• Pennsylvania County Owes $67 Million After Man Finds Arrest Records on Mugshots.com (The Appeal)
• Floridians Are Suing a Cop Fired for Planting Drugs in Their Vehicles (The Appeal)
• St. Louis County Jailed a Pregnant Woman for 39 Days Because She Refused a Paternity Test (The Appeal)
• Texas Plans to Execute a Man for a Murder He Didn't Commit (The Appeal)
• Showtime’s 'Escape at Dannemora' Left Out Torture and Abuse (Cross-Published on The Appeal and Solitary Watch)
• How the Cruel Campaign to End 'Conjugal' Visits Hurts Incarcerated Moms Most. (Vice)
• At Virginia's Supermax Prisons, Isolation and Abuse Persist Despite Reforms (Solitary Watch, co-authored with Jack Denton)
• We Are One Body: Catholics Raise Voices Against the Use of Solitary Confinement (America)
• Missouri Is Denying Parole to People Sentenced as Children (Talk Poverty)
• Lawsuit Reveals How Tech Companies Profit Off the Prison-Industrial Complex (ThinkProgress)
• How an Ex-Felon Voting Bloc Could Shape Baltimore's Election (In These Times)
• Life Without Parole Is No Moral Alternative to the Death Penalty (America)
• New York State Is Dehumanizing Prison Inmates (Dame)
• Legal Settlement Demands Better Mental Health Care, Less Solitary Confinement in Illinois Prisons (Solitary Watch)
• Will the Supreme Court Free Albert Woodfox After 43 Years in Solitary? (Solitary Watch)
• 1 in 13 African-American Adults Prohibited From Voting in the United States (BillMoyers.com)
• Not a Trivial Pursuit (Notre Dame Magazine)
• Can Tiny Houses Help Fix Homelessness? (Mother Jones)
• The Magic (and Hard Work) Behind Brooklyn Public Library’s Millions of Materials (Brooklyn Magazine)
• Voices From Baltimore (BillMoyers.com)
• Money in Politics Is Darkening the Future for Millennials (BillMoyers.com)
• Why Campaign Finance Reform Is the First Issue We Must Address (BillMoyers.com)
• There's an International Soccer Tournament Where All the Players Are Homeless (Mother Jones)
• Why Do So Many Young Americans Misunderstand Vaccination? (BillMoyers.com)
• California Just Passed a Plastic Bag Ban. Here's What You Need to Know. (Mother Jones)
• Hispanics Lead U.S. Catholics on Climate Change (Commonweal)
• "More Money Than I Could Count": Mitch McConnell's Very Special Relationship With Lobbyists (Mother Jones, co-authored with Andy Kroll)

Data Stories

• Some of America's Worst For-Profit Colleges Are Raking It In (Slate)
• This Chart Sums Up the Pentagon's Paid Patriotism Program (Slate)
• 5 Charts That Show How the Middle Class Is Disappearing (BillMoyers.com)
• What Are the Gun Control Laws in Your State? (Slate)
• College Has Gotten 12 Times More Expensive in One Generation (Mother Jones)
• Why American Indians Are Still Not Fairly Represented (BillMoyers.com)

Other Projects

• Building Exits Off the Highway to Mass Incarceration: Diversion Programs Explained (Co-author on Prison Policy Initiative report)
• Louisiana on Lockdown: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony from the People Who Live It (Lead writer on joint report from the ACLU of Louisiana, Loyola University New Orleans' Jesuit Social Research Institute, and Solitary Watch)
• Unlocking Solitary Confinement: Ending Extreme Isolation in Nevada State Prisons (Lead writer on joint report from the ACLU of Nevada and Solitary Watch)
• The American Way of Eating (2012) (Book Research Assistant for Tracie McMillan)