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A round-up of reporting from our grantees, upcoming events, and news from the Pulitzer Center

The New York Times
Taxpayers Pay $13 Million Per Guantánamo Prisoner

Carol Rosenberg’s latest Pulitzer Center-supported story for The New York Times revealed the staggering cost to U.S. taxpayers of keeping 40 terror suspects detained indefinitely at Guantánamo, prompting President Trump to call the $13 million per detainee price tag “crazy.” As one Navy lawyer told Rosenberg, “America’s tiniest boutique prison [is] reserved exclusively for alleged geriatric jihadists.” 

 
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The Seattle Times
Seattle Family Adapts to Life After Deportation

Rafael Valdez was deported from the United States in 2013, bringing his American wife and children to live in his home town of Zacatecas, Mexico. Reporting in a Pulitzer Center-supported story for The Seattle Times, writer Nina Shapiro, photographer Erika Schultz, and videographer Corinne Chin offer a moving look at life in Mexico for deportees and their American-born families. Despite efforts to make the best of the situation, the Valdez family still longs to return home to the Seattle area. “I’m not sure where we belong,” says Joy Valdez, Rafael’s wife. “Maybe it’s harder on me than I realize.”
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NBC News
How Women in Poverty Are Supplying America's Market for Hair

The U.S. is the biggest market for human hair used in extensions, weaves, and wigs, but where does that hair come from? Reporting in a Pulitzer Center-supported story for NBC News, writer Erica Ayisi and photographer Paula Bronstein traveled to Cambodia to report on how rural women sell their hair for as little as $8 per bundle, depending on length. That hair is later resold on the global market for as much as $300 per bundle. 
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EVENTS
The 1619 Project at UChicago with Award-Winning Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones 
October 7, 2019
Chicago, IL
Pulitzer Center at Texas Tribune Festival: From Immigration to Civil Asset Forfeiture
September 28, 2019
Austin, TX

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