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I’ve been on Knock LA’s admin team since 2022. I’ve coordinated skills building workshops w/ journalism orgs, overseen award winning reporting & secured major funders. Last night Ground Game LA maliciously deleted all of my @knockdotLA accounts. Pls read our newsroom’s open letter

Only in Gaza you will see airdrops and airstrikes in one picture.

No one should look to the sky and wonder if what's falling is death or dinner.

Our work with Lindsay Poirier and PFAS Project Lab featured in The Guardian.
“We see the dehumanization of incarcerated people across the country, and these exposures are symptoms of that larger problem” Nick Shapiro
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California’s $68B Budget Deficit Has an Obvious Solution. Let old people out of prison.

prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/04/04/cal…

“he didn’t fight for notoriety or glory. He remained humble till the day he passed.”

Death behind bars: DC family searching for answers after son’s death in federal prison – NBC4 Washington nbcwashington.com/investigations…

Please allow me to share this article and brag a little bit about all the good work that we do at the Undergraduate Research Centers at UCLA!

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Investigative reporter Joshua Vaughn from PennLive.com says that there are laws on the books about properly reporting the number of deaths in custody, however, they either have no enforcement mechanism or there fundamentally appears to be no desire to enforce the law #SenDemPolicy

‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime? theguardian.com/environment/20…

In 1898, White mobs overthrew the democratically elected government Wilmington, North Carolina, massacred 250 Black residents & expelled 100,000 more, all because too many Black people were elected to office. This remains their mentality to this day. When they see too many Black…

This was an unimaginablely labor intensive reporting project that's just starting to publish. Their database has uncovered hundreds of deaths not previously reported elsewhere and focuses on the role of death investigations by medical examiners and coroners

So why HAS there been such a rise in deaths?

Honestly, 3500 words later I haven't found anyone with a clear answer. Even Carceral Ecologies's Nick Shapiro - who probs knows more about LA jail deaths than just about anyone - said he has resigned himself to not entirely knowing.

'Natural' deaths are up, but Nick Shapiro rightfully points out that these deaths are only 'natural' if you ignore the widespread neglect and abuse by LA County Sheriffs. Life saving interventions aren't happening, and even standard care isn't being provided.

Truly incredible and unflinching account of the heart-wrenching loses of life in LA Jails.

Congratulations to our prisons paper team for being featured in The Hill! Check it out here: thehill.com/policy/energy-…