Idaho leaders urged to address systemic failures following prison abuse reports
InvestigateWest reporters uncovered years of sexual abuse by women’s prison guards prompting calls for independent investigation
Foster Care
Washington housing foster care kids at state offices in record-breaking numbers
The number of times that state child-welfare workers housed foster children overnight in government offices has exploded, from six times in the last reporting period to 284.
COVID-19 spreads in WA’s foster-care group home system; operators fear state's wrath
With COVID-19 spreading into Washington’s system of foster care group homes, operators of the facilities say they are in a precarious position and fear “retaliation” by state child-welfare officials
Amid COVID-19, ex-foster youth struggle – will WA match other states’ rescue plans?
Young adults in the foster care system, who are disproportionately people of color, were already at risk for a litany of serious problems even before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Birth parents fight to visit kids in foster system during pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has translated into severe unhappiness for parents of children taken into Washington State's foster-care system who no longer are able in most cases to have in-person contact with their children.
