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The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning
On April 24, as students were wrapping up their semester at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, the school’s provost convened an ad hoc committee to discuss a planned protest against the war in Gaza that was set to begin the following day. It was less than a week after Columbia University had called in the NYPD to break up an encampment in Manhattan, arresting more than 100 students, and tensions were running high nationwide. Already, over the winter, Indiana University had suspended a professor for sponsoring a talk by the student Palestine Solidarity Committee and canceled a major retrospective exhibition — in the works for years — by the 87-year-old Palestinian American painter and IU alumnus Samia Halaby, an outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation.
The Backstory: Aurora Almendral
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals in the U.S. and Europe rapidly accelerated hiring nurses from countries like the Philippines, India, and Nigeria, to bolster their workforces amidst staffing shortages. In “Merchants of Care,” a four-part series produced in partnership with Quartz and the Pulitzer Center, Aurora Almendral and Samanth Subramanian investigated the consequences of this global movement of nurses and spoke with dozens of nurses who left their home countries only to experience exploitation abroad.
The Backstory: Adam Federman
For over a decade, Type Investigations reporting fellow Adam Federman has been looking into the ways corporations and governments have responded to protest movements. In February, in partnership with Grist, he reported on newly-obtained documents detailing how the FBI and other government agencies were surveilling anti-Keystone XL pipeline protestors far earlier than previously known. And in his most recent cover story for In These Times magazine, he investigated the wave of anti-protest laws sweeping the country.
The War on Protest
Amin Chaoui had been in Atlanta less than 24 hours when things took an unexpected turn. Chaoui, then 31, drove down from Richmond, Va., to attend a March 2023 music festival organized by activists trying to stop the construction of the police training facility known as Cop City. The sprawling compound in one of Atlanta’s largest urban parks would require clearing at least 85 acres of partly forested land that abuts a predominantly Black neighborhood in DeKalb County. It faced growing opposition from racial and environmental justice advocates, including an occupation of the forest that began in November 2021.
Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps
This story was produced with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. On an October morning, a small army arrived to evict Rudy Ortega from his home in the Crash Zone, an encampment located near the end of the airport runway in San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s largest city. As jets roared overhead, garbage trucks and police squad cars encircled Ortega’s hand-built shelter. Heavy machinery operators stood by for the signal to bulldoze Ortega’s camp.
When the State Comes for Your Estate
This story was published in partnership with The Assembly, a digital-first magazine about power and place in North Carolina. When Tammy Crowder’s phone rang late one evening in February 2018, her eldest sister, Joy, sounded panicked. Their mother, Cleveland Hager, had slipped and fallen on her side, injuring her leg. Unable to stand, Hager crawled from the hallway to her bedroom in search of a phone to call for help. The effort took hours.
The Backstory: Garrett Hazelwood
In Louisiana, criminal fines and fees pour millions of dollars into Judicial Expense Funds, which judges can spend on anything related to court operations, from staff salaries to luxury car leases. That means judges have financial incentives to set high bail and convict more people. In his new investigation, “Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions,” produced in partnership with WWNO and WRKF, Garrett Hazelwood reviewed thousands of financial documents and discovered that some judges are using these funds to pay for expenses like Lexuses and BMWs, Apple Watch bills, and fancy hotel stays.
How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement
This article was produced in partnership with Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter here. On the morning of March 5, 2012, Debra White Plume received an urgent phone call. A convoy of large trucks transporting pipeline servicing equipment was attempting to cross the Pine Ridge Reservation near the town of Wanblee, South Dakota. White Plume, a prominent Lakota activist, immediately dropped what she was doing and headed to the site, where, within a few hours, a group of about 75 people from the Pine Ridge Reservation gathered.
Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions
A judge in Lincoln Parish leased a BMW. Another, from Jefferson Davis Parish, booked a week’s stay in a two-bedroom beachfront condo for five people. A third judge bought an $850 iPhone 12. A fourth had a security system installed in his home. Defendants who appeared in their courtrooms...
Type Investigations Names Aviva Shen as Executive Editor
Type Investigations is pleased to announce that Aviva Shen has been appointed as our Executive Editor, effective immediately. Shen has served as Deputy Editor at Type Investigations for two years, after joining the organization in March 2021 as a Senior Editor. “Aviva’s innovative approach and editorial excellence have already left...
A Death at Walmart
On a chilly Sunday afternoon exactly two years ago today, Janikka Perry arrived for her bakery shift at a Walmart supercenter in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Once she began working, she started to feel unusually faint. As the hours wore on, she told her co-workers she wasn’t feeling well, and retreated to a bathroom for rest. But the store was short-staffed, and her manager allegedly told her to “pull herself together.”
Seven Must-Read Investigations From 2023
This year, Type Investigations has published dozens of stories that have exposed wrongdoing, shed light on injustice, and held power to account. Our reporting fellows have continued to examine the most pressing issues of the day. And through our partnerships with local and national newsrooms, and initiatives like the Inside/Out Journalism Project, we are proud to help support vital journalism that would not otherwise exist.
The Eric Adams Table of Success
Long before he became the internationally known Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams had a favorite saying about haters and waiters. Sometimes it’s used for inspiration, like in 2018, when he told Brooklyn College graduates, “Let your haters be your waiters!” In other cases, it’s a kind of rebuke, a cautionary tale for those who doubt him. “As a little boy, as a police officer, as a state senator, as the borough president, as the mayor, all I know is, all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success,” Adams told a heckler earlier this year.
Report Finds Arizona 911 Dispatchers Fail to Help Lost Migrants
On June 27, 2022, around 1:44 a.m., a man lost in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona called 911. An emergency services dispatcher for Pima County answered. The man, clearly distressed, tried to describe his surroundings and explain that he was lost, wet and freezing. But before he could finish, the dispatcher interrupted him, saying, “I don’t understand, un momento,” and abruptly transferred the call to the U.S. Border Patrol. The agent who picked up shushed the caller as he started to speak —“Cállate!” (“Be quiet!”) — and spoke to the dispatcher instead, in English. Then they hung up, leaving the man to the agent. An incident report suggests that no actions were taken to follow up or locate the lost caller: “No additional calls have come from the subject. … At this time the caller has not been identified and not located.”
The Backstory: Olivia Gentile
Parental alienation is a disputed psychiatric diagnosis in which that accuses one parent is accused of having brainwashed their child against the other parent. In a new documentary, “The Truth Behind The Experimental Therapy That Kids Say Starts With ‘Legalized Kidnapping,‘” produced in partnership with Insider and Retro Report, a follow-up to her recent series of investigations on the topic, reporter Olivia Gentile exposes how parental alienation has been cited by family courts in custody cases, resulting in children being placed back with their abusers or in ‘family reunification’ programs that separate them from their trusted parent.
The Truth Behind The Experimental Therapy That Kids Say Starts With ‘Legalized Kidnapping’
This investigation explores how proponents of “parental alienation” theory have convinced family court judges to order children into these experimental reunification programs, usually during a custody battle in a divorce. The therapists claim their programs can repair broken parent-child relationships, but critics call them junk science and say they have traumatized kids.
The Climate Crisis Is Pushing Washington’s Prisons to the Brink
This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations. It was produced in partnership with High County News, a nonprofit magazine that covers the Western United States and its people, places and ecology. The Mission Creek Corrections...
Solitary Confinement is Widespread in New Jersey Prisons, Watchdog Finds
New Jersey prisons are holding hundreds of people in disciplinary units in conditions tantamount to solitary confinement, a recent report by a state watchdog found. On an average day, some 750 people are living in Restorative Housing Units, or R.H.U.s, in the state’s prisons. The New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) does not consider R.H.U.s, where prisoners are sent for disciplinary sanctions, to be solitary confinement, which state law defines as at least 20 hours a day in a cell. People in R.H.U.s are supposed to be offered at least four hours a day outside their cells.
The New Cold War in the Arctic
In the spring of 1953, when Regina Kristiansen was 14, she and her family were forced to leave their village of Uummannaq in northwestern Greenland, hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle. At the behest of Danish authorities, who promised them new homes, they were given just a few days to gather their belongings. Kristiansen drove a dogsled across the ice for two days before reaching a barren island in Baffin Bay. Along with seven other families, they lived in makeshift tents for months as storms lashed the shore and winter approached. One woman gave birth in the tents. Another, a village elder, died before Denmark finished building their homes.
Anatomy of a Police Shooting
This is the second part of a two-part investigative series into the death of Donnell Rochester. Go here to read the first part of the story. This story was produced with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. Around 3:10 p.m. on Feb. 19, 2022, on a residential street in northeast...
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