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Shoshana Walter is an award-winning American journalist who was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. She and journalist Amy Julia Harris covered a series of criminal justice stories for Reveal Center for Investigative Reporting.[1] In 2017, Walter investigated a drug rehabilitation program that exploited patients by using them for unpaid labor. [2] 2017 Reveal InvestigationRecovery Connections, a drug rehabilitation program based in North Carolina, partnered with the Coca-Cola Company and local chicken farms to employ patients enrolled in the program. They collected interviews from several patients who claimed that Recovery Connections denied them pay. One interviewee said that he never received worker’s compensation after he injured his hand at the farm’s processing plant. Aftermath of Reveal InvestigationImmediately after Reveal published Walter and Harris’ report, several departments and key members of the North Carolina state government, including the governor and state attorney general, responded swiftly. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper called Recovery Connections a “horrific scheme that preys on people at their lowest” and called for a thorough investigation and shutdown of the program. North Carolina Attorney General, Josh Stein, launched both criminal and regulatory investigations into Recovery Connections. Meanwhile, the North Carolina Secretary of State, Elaine Marshall, launched a separate investigation into Recovery Connections founder, Jennifer Warren, after program participants accused her of misusing nonprofit donations.[3] Aside from state leaders starting investigations into Recovery Connections, two state departments took steps to restrict the program. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services barred Recovery Connections from sending rehab participants to work in nursing homes. Another department, the state Department of Public Safety, prohibited people on probation from enrolling in the program even though it was once seen as an alternative to prison. Other Awards and HonorsWalter won the Susan Jones Prize for commitment to social justice during her years at Mount Holyoke.[4] In 2015, Walter won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of investigations into the American security and armed guard industry. The Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists awarded Walter for deadline spot reporting in 2017.[5] Walter and Harris's investigation into Recovery Connections was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting. Apart from the Pulitzer nomination, “All Work, No Pay” was also nominated for the Selden Ring and the IRE Awards.[6] Early LifeWalter was born in New York City, New York in 1985. She attended Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated in May 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies. In addition, Walter interned with Shelterforce Magazine of the National Housing Institute and the Daily New Hampshire Gazette of Northhampton, Massachusetts.[7] Walter attended the 2007 Poynter Summer Fellowship for Young Journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida.[8] References |
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