A series of letters from detainees in one of America’s largest jails reveals the mounting dread and uncertainty as the coronavirus spreads inside the 7,500-inmate facility.
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Ian MacDougallLetters from the Houston jail:
Well, now I’m in fear for my life, cause I have heart disease
Our bunks are about 8 inches apart
At this present time I am sick with a bad cold/flu, possibly coronavirus. I am scared
My latest @propublica & @texastribune
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The corporate consulting firm reported bogus numbers and flailed in a project at Rikers Island. Today, assaults and other attacks there are up almost 50%.
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Ian MacDougallYesterday, I reported for @ProPublica on a failed $27.5M @mckinsey project to curb violence at NYC’s Rikers Island jail complex.
propublica.org/article/new-yo…
For that story, I reviewed >10k pages of project documents. Let’s take a look at some of them. /1
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Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including some that the agency’s staff viewed as too harsh on immigrants.
Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including measures the agency’s staff sometimes viewed as too harsh on immigrants.
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Ian MacDougall (ProPublica).
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Ian MacDougallAfter this @propublica story ran, William Emanuel, the NLRB member, told members of Congress he plans to clarify or correct a letter he sent to them last month—a letter we first reported on. We got a hold of the new letter too: bit.ly/2rXW6ihpropublica.org/article/willia…
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William Emanuel, already criticized for allegedly favoring clients of the corporate law firm he used to work for, now faces a probe by the agency’s inspector general.
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Ian MacDougallAfter this @propublica story ran, William Emanuel, the NLRB member, told members of Congress he plans to clarify or correct a letter he sent to them last month—a letter we first reported on. We got a hold of the new letter too: bit.ly/2rXW6ihpropublica.org/article/willia…
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Joe DiMaggio's fifty-six–game hitting streak is both the greatest factual achievement in the history of baseball and a principal icon of American mythology. What shall we do with such a central item of our cultural history?
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Ian MacDougallThank you @nybooks for reminding me what an extraordinary essayist Stephen Jay Gould was
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