Sarah Stillman
Sarah Stillman , a staff writer, won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her investigation into the legal doctrine of felony murder . She runs the Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.
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a reporter at large ·
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? Sarah Stillman reports.
a reporter at large ·
Across the U.S., felony-murder laws hold people responsible for killings they didn’t commit, putting thousands of Americans—disproportionately young and Black—in prison. Sarah Stillman looks at the case of Sadik Baxter.
a reporter at large ·
Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered, Sarah Stillman writes.
letter from oklahoma ·
Sending a mother to prison can have a devastating effect on her children, Sarah Stillman writes. Why, then, do we lock so many women up?
a reporter at large ·
Sarah Stillman on the immigrants in the U.S. who may face violence and murder in their home countries—and what happens when they are forced to return.
annals of justice ·
Sarah Stillman on the sex-offender registry, and what happens when juveniles are accused of misconduct.
a reporter at large ·
Sarah Stillman writes about abductions of undocumented migrants attempting to enter the United States, and why such kidnappings are on the rise.
a reporter at large ·
Sarah Stillman on the private-probation industry, which offers alternatives to incarceration by charging small-time offenders ever-mounting fees.
a reporter at large ·
Sarah Stillman on civil forfeiture, wherein police departments can confiscate money and possessions without charging the owners with a crime.
a reporter at large ·
Sarah Stillman on how the U.S. Army uses numerous workers, many of whom are exploited and poorly informed of their rights, to staff jobs in war zones.