Meron Kassa

To the Mayor’s Office of Los Angeles, My name is Meron, and I am a reporter with Raise the Voices, an advocacy journalism organization. I am writing to you to discuss the unjust killing of Ezell Ford and the inaction following his death. On August 11th, 2014, Ezell Ford,

THE BIG PICTURE: As COVID-19 escalates, prisons across the United States are resorting to solitary confinement as a means of containing the virus. Within weeks, the number of isolated inmates surged from 60,000 inmates to a staggering 300,000, suggesting that solitary confinement is headed toward a path of

To: The NYPD, the mayor’s office of New York, and the city council of NYC My name is Ingrid Chang, and I am a reporter with Raise the Voices, an advocacy journalism organization. I am writing to you today to discuss the case of David Felix, a mentally ill