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Amanda Robb

- Amanda Robb is a writer based in New York. She has been a contributing writer for O (Oprah) magazine, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, New York, George, Marie Claire, More, Harper’s Bazaar UK) and other periodicals.

The Backstory: Frank Matt
Jaime Longoria talks to Frank Matt about finding and organizing data of more than 107,000 former nuclear weapons workers in the US who have been diagnosed with cancers and other diseases.

Seth Freed Wessler
'They Knew Something Was Going On'
The US government repeatedly ignored its own watchdogs as dozens of noncitizens died in its private prisons.

Lisa Armstrong
Hard Time
The US is the only country that routinely sentences children to life in prison without parole.

Seth Freed Wessler
Justice Department to End All Federal Private Prisons
The announcement was made following our yearlong probe uncovering dozens of questionable deaths and years of dire warnings from internal monitors.

Seth Freed Wessler
The Feds Will Shut Down a Troubled Private Prison
The facility is among several in which our reporting has uncovered dozens of deaths that involved substandard medical care.

Joshua Frank
Whistleblower Retaliation Alive and Well at Hanford
Washington state's attorney general and others filed an emergency motion to force the Department of Energy and a federal contractor to protect workers from toxic vapor exposure at the nuclear cleanup site.

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