LAist • September 20th, 2023

California Nursing Homes Are Becoming ‘De Facto Mental Health Centers’

All over California, people with serious mental illness are living in nursing homes that experts say weren’t meant to care for them — an investigation by LAist reveals. Some call it "warehousing" and say the practice might violate federal laws. The consequences have been deadly.

LAist • August 4th, 2022

CA Bill Aims To Release Severely Ill Patients From Prisons

The bill comes after our investigation found the state moved medically vulnerable inmates to a decertified nursing home.

LAist • May 3rd, 2022

Medical Parole Got Them Out Of State Prison. Now They're In A Decertified Nursing Home

Medical parole patients are among the most vulnerable in the California's corrections system -- paraplegics, quadriplegics and stroke patients. The state quietly moved them all to a nursing home that the federal government stripped of certification due to its troubled track record of care.

LAist • April 6th, 2021

Immediate jeopardy: Death and neglect inside a troubled California nursing home chain

This investigation revealed how California allowed a nursing home company to operate facilities even after the state denied the company a license. It spurred the passage of a new law aimed to close the loophole.

LAist • June 22nd, 2020

Immigrant Detainees At Adelanto Say Officers Pepper-Sprayed Them For Peacefully Protesting

Immigrant detainees at Adelanto Detention Center say they were injured or left struggling to breathe after officers in riot gear shot pepper bullets and discharged pepper spray at them earlier this month in an incident that until now has gone unreported.

Reveal • August 4th, 2018

Trapped: Abuse and neglect in private care - Reveal

I investigated the story of Jean Jimenez, a former DACA recipient who died at an immigration detention center in Georgia in solitary confinement. (Audio documentary starts at 28:52).

Reveal • June 8th, 2018

Rep. John Lewis calls for end to 'unjust' immigrant detention system - Reveal

U.S. Rep. John Lewis is calling for more oversight over immigration enforcement and detention, citing reports including my investigation.

WABE • May 31st, 2018

Exclusive: An ICE Detention Center’s Struggle With ‘Chronic’ Staff Shortages

My investigation into an immigration detention center in Georgia was cited in a letter to Congress by the late Rep. John Lewis.