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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...
Prisoners Say New Jersey’s Alternative To Solitary Confinement Is Pretty Much The Same
This story is part of the Inside/Out Journalism Project by Type Investigations, which works with incarcerated reporters to produce ambitious, feature-length investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. Nathan Gray often found himself pacing his cramped cell, barraged night and day by the sound of other men’s screams. The...
A Hidden System of Exploitation Underpins US Hospitals’ Employment of Foreign Nurses
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — When Rachel started her job as a nurse in the internal medicine unit at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare last year, it felt like the realization of a dream that was years in the making. A slight, soft-spoken Filipino woman, Rachel, 31, had spent her career working in...
An Exodus of Nurses Has Caused a “Medical Brain Drain” in Nigeria. Are Rich Countries to Blame?
This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center and produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, with additional support from the Gertrude Blumenthal Kasbekar Fund and the Puffin Foundation. LAGOS, Nigeria — T. spent the many waves of COVID-19 working at a pediatric care facility in Lagos, the...
Merchants of Care
A worldwide bidding war for nurses is accelerating a migration from poor countries to rich ones. What happens to vulnerable care workers when they arrive in their new jobs far from home? And what happens to the vulnerable health systems they leave behind? Type Investigations and Quartz traveled the world to find out, with support from the Pulitzer Center.
How Nursing Brokers in India Turn Dreams of Opportunity Into Exploitation Abroad
This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center and produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, with additional support from the Gertrude Blumenthal Kasbekar Fund and the Puffin Foundation. When Maria landed in the United Kingdom in March 2022, she thought she knew what awaited her. She knew...
Rich Countries Are Importing a Solution to Their Nursing Shortages—and Poor Countries Are Paying the Price
This series was supported by the Pulitzer Center and produced in partnership with the nonprofit newsroom Type Investigations, with additional support from the Gertrude Blumenthal Kasbekar Fund and the Puffin Foundation. MANILA, Philippines — It all happened so fast for Diane Mae Gamboa. One day in March 2022, she walked...
Parental Alienation
Type Investigations and Insider's reporting on parental alienation, a disputed psychiatric diagnosis that accuses one parent of having brainwashed a child against their other parent, exposed how family court judges have cited the concept when placing children in the custody of their abusers or sending them to harmful "reunification programs."
California Legislature Passes Law Aiming to Protect Children From Abusers During Custody Disputes
Again and again, Ana Estevez warned officials that the man she was divorcing, Aramazd Andressian, was abusive and dangerous. Nevertheless, a Los Angeles County family court judge granted him shared custody of their 5-year-old son, Piqui. One week later, on April 21, 2017, Andressian smothered the boy to death. Engulfed...
Type Investigations Launches Groundbreaking Springboard Project for Newsrooms Serving Marginalized Communities
Type Investigations has launched the Springboard Project, a groundbreaking initiative that provides an infusion of resources to help newsrooms serving historically marginalized communities build their investigative capacity. Its unique model addresses the individual needs of each newsroom to boost impact, expand audience, and unlock philanthropic support. “The inspiration for the...
The Backstory: Amelia Schonbek
In her newest investigation, “Against a Sea of Troubles,” produced in partnership with Mother Jones, reporter Amelia Schonbek looked into the toxic culture of misogyny and abuse in the maritime industry. Through FOIAs and conversations with women workers and advocates, Amelia found that sexual misconduct is rampant in the Merchant Marine, but the Coast Guard rarely receives reports of incidents.
Against a Sea of Troubles
Any woman who works in the maritime industry will remember where she was when she read about Midshipman X. This was the pseudonym used by a student at the US Merchant Marine Academy when she published a blog post in September 2021 alleging that, as a 19-year-old cadet on board a cargo ship, she was raped by a senior officer. Afterward, the officer intimidated and threatened her; she had to remain on the ship and work alongside him for another 50 days.
Camera Use by Local Police Departments Rises, but Are They Worth It? Experts Disagree
Robin Fritz, a 5-foot-1-inch woman in her early 60s, was “terrified” when she was tackled by a sheriff’s deputy in Sullivan County, Tennessee, she said in a civil rights lawsuit filed last year. The encounter came after she confronted a teenage neighbor who she said was driving...
The Brief, Beautiful Life of Donnell Rochester
Donnell Rochester knew he was a star by the time he turned 18. He thought of himself as an influencer, boasting 10,000 followers on one of his many Instagram accounts. In one short video, Rochester is standing in front of a boarded-up rowhouse, wearing a fashionably torn denim jacket with a black purse on a silver chain hanging from the crook of his arm as he presses a finger against a wide pair of black glasses.
Millions of TikTok Users Watched Maya and Sebastian Vanish Into the Night. Now the Children Have Emerged to Tell Their Painful Story.
A video that went viral on TikTok last fall showed 15-year-old Maya and 11-year-old Sebastian, siblings from Santa Cruz, California, pleading and screaming in protest as three strangers cornered them in a garage, picked them up, and forced them into a black SUV. “You’re kidnapping me!” Maya cried as she struggled in vain to get away.
I Was Forced Into Reunification Therapy to Bond With My Emotionally Abusive Father. The Next 3 ½ Years Were Hell.
When their parents divorced in 2011, Ashton Goff and his little brother lived primarily with their mom. Ashton disliked visiting their dad, Michael D., and Delaware’s child-welfare agency found that Michael had emotionally abused him. Then, in 2016, Michael turned the tables. He claimed that his ex-wife had poisoned...
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