Work from 2023 Grant Recipients
Lauren Gill and Daniel Moritz-Rabson published the first articles in their series on execution practices in Bolts, a digital magazine that focuses on criminal justice and voting rights.
Work from 2022 Grant Recipients
Reporters from The Associated Press examined the rash of state police reform laws that followed the death of George Floyd. Some reforms have been diluted, others have slowed, and some gave police greater protections.
Work from 2021 Grant Recipients
A January 2022 project from AL.com that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Led by John Archibald, 2018 Pulitzer winner for Commentary, and Ashley Remkus, part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, this series exposed the criminalization of people for profit in a small Alabama town.
The first story by Margie Mason and Robin McDowell's series for AP examining the prison labor business. It was done as a podcast with Reveal. The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters were able to get US Steel to acknowledge its interests in a forced labor camp in Alabama; the reporters also located a cemetery that contained the bodies of former prisoners that US Steel had long denied owning. Margie Mason was also interviewed about the story by Yamiche Alcindor on Washington Week Recommends.
Mother Jones reporter Samantha Michaels looked at Oklahoma's failure-to-protect laws that penalize and imprison mothers with harsher sentences than those given to the men who brutalized their children.
Futuro Media wrote about Tennessee's treatment of juvenile lifers
