Center of Detention was jointly reported by The News Tribune's Lewis Kamb and InvestigateWest's Carol Smith. More information on the series is available.
'Center of Detention' now available for Kindle
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Big (for us) news. We've published our first Kindle book — Center of Detention, by Carol Smith and The News Tribune's Lewis Kamb.
The book is a collection of the reporting that Carol and Lewis did for a series of stories that ran in The News Tribune in September.
Here's something very nice that was said about it in Bender's Immigration Bulletin:
"This extraordinary in-depth investigation reveals the hard truths about the Northwest Detention Center."
You can download Center of Detention from Amazon to read on your Kindle, or on a Kindle app for your phone or computer.
If you read it and like it, we'd surely appreciate you leaving a nice review over on Amazon so that other readers who stumble upon the book page have a reason to click Buy. Thanks!
Wealth & Poverty | February 2013
End of the Line
“It was just common knowledge – when you turn 18, you’re done,” Sharayah Lane said. “After the checks stopped coming, we all went our separate ways."
End of the Line is a new series by Claudia Rowe asking what happens when teens get too old for foster care in Washington State.
Photo Credit: Jon Connell/Flickr
A Rare Look Inside the
Northwest Detention Center
by Lewis Kamb
The High Cost of
Technicalities
by Carol Smith
'I can't even talk
about it'
by Carol Smith
A DUI and a Deportation
by Lewis Kamb
Fleeing El Salvador
for Tacoma
by Lewis Kamb
15 Minutes in
Immigration Court
by Carol Smith
Is There a Right
to Counsel?
by Carol Smith
Read the Documents
by The News-Tribune Staff
About the Reporting
by Lewis Kamb
Environment | January 2013
Sharecroppers of the Sea
Meet America's newest sharecroppers. Guys like Jared Bright who vie for control of the Pacific fishing industry's lower rungs, the only rungs that seem to be left. They don't own the halibut, not even when it lands in their boats.
Lee van der Voo uncovers absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, and fish quota that costs more than your house — realities that fly in the face of more official, rosy portrayals.
Health | November 2012
The Mystery of MS
Kids with multiple sclerosis, historically an adult disorder, offer researchers a set of intriguing new clues about the disease that could lead, eventually, to better treatments.
With adolescent MS on the rise in the Northwest, Carol Smith meets a young patient who is learning to live with the disease at the age of 16, and the doctors and scientists trying to keep her healthy.
Environment | October 2012
Clean Water: The Next Act
In 1972, Congress enacted legislation to end water pollution. Forty years later, American rivers and lakes are still badly contaminated, and new threats to clean water are outpacing the Act's enforcers. Follow along as InvestigateWest and EarthFix investigate.
Immigration | September 2012
Center of Detention
The Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., generates millions in revenue for its private operator by processing thousands of deportation cases each year. Oscar Estrada is one of those cases.
Environment | June 2012
Parks for Sale
As local governments trade away public parkland, the safeguards put in place by the Land and Water Conservation Fund to protect that land are full of holes.
Robert McClure tracked a handful of park conversions for more than three years, reviewed thousands of pages of documents and compiled a database of over 40,000 park grants.
Public Health | January 2012
The Prescription Epidemic
As Washington enacts the strongest prescription drug law in the country, InvestigateWest presents a six-month investigation into the origins of the prescription epidemic, the challenge it poses for communities, and what lessons other states might learn.
Check out the full list of news outlets publishing the story, and visit KCTS.org to watch Prescription for Abuse, a KCTS 9/InvestigateWest documentary and roundtable with prescription drug experts.