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An Idaho nonprofit that operates court-ordered safe houses for human trafficking victims exploited them for Medicaid dollars, free labor — and the founder’s lavish lifestyle. One of the best investigations I read in 2024, by Wilson Criscione Kelsey Turner: investigatewest.org/investigatewes…

NEW, from me: Shaken baby syndrome--a diagnosis that has resulted in wrongful convictions across the country--continues to shape criminal prosecutions and child welfare investigations, under the name "abusive head trauma." What happened to one family: propublica.org/article/shaken…

By the end of 2025, research shows a third of U.S. local newspapers will be closed for good. Many remaining are broke and understaffed. But local newsrooms are still a vital force for good in communities across the country. Proof, just in the last year, of what we stand to lose:

Thank you to Shorenstein Center and The Journalist's Resource for the opportunity to speak about the reporting behind our hospital drug testing stories. I’m honored that this series was selected as a finalist for the Goldsmith Awards.

After she went to the police for help as a victim of assault, ICE agents arrested a 4 foot-10, 49-year-old mother of two by breaking her car window and pulling her from her seat.

Often, problematic prosecutions come to light only after a person has already been convicted, when it's much harder to right a wrong. Here, there's still time for the state to reconsider its case. Read Liliana Segura's urgent, enraging reporting here: theintercept.com/2025/03/31/flo…

The The Journalist's Resource team interviewed the 2025 Goldsmith investigative journalism prize finalists for insights on what it takes to create an important piece of investigative journalism. Check out our tip-filled How They Did It series. journalistsresource.org/tag/2025-golds…

NEW: Hospitals routinely drug test and report birthing patients to CPS over positive results caused by poppy seeds, heartburn meds, and fentanyl from epidurals. My latest story is about the small but growing movement of doctors trying to change that: themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/hos…

NEW INVESTIGATION: California is facing an underinsurance crisis, as wildfire survivors struggle to rebuild their homes. Insurers often blame homeowners for this crisis. But as Megan Fan Munce & I found, the companies are largely responsible. Read more tinyurl.com/39pdydwj

I spoke with Slate on my The Marshall Project reporting on hospital drug testing, from its origins in the crack epidemic, to the implications for pretty much every single person who gives birth in the US today. Please give it a listen. slate.com/podcasts/what-…

Shoshana Walter (Shoshana Walter ✏️) of The Marshall Project shares tips on using confidential child welfare records & interviewing traumatized parents from her investigation into hospitals that drug tested pregnant patients then reported false positives to authorities: journalistsresource.org/home/marshall-…

Thanks so much to Sam Dingman Ayana Hamilton for having me on KJZZ Phoenix to talk about the growing movement of doctors pushing hospitals to end automatic drug testing and reporting of pregnant patients and newborns. Please listen and share: kjzz.org/the-show/2025-…

"Everyone's afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops & the next begins," said the former ombudsman for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for immigrant kids, about closer ties w/ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement propublica.org/article/office…

She was pregnant when she went to jail. What happened next isn't even a statistic. A News 5 Cleveland / The Marshall Project investigation by Scott Noll and Mark Puente news5cleveland.com/news/the-marsh…

Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Just had the great pleasure of speaking with the brilliant Caleb Gayle. I can’t wait to read his new book, an important work of historical nonfiction about one man’s efforts to establish a Black state within the US, out this summer: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717975/b…

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future. wired.com/story/cbp-dna-…