José Olivares
Bilingual Investigative Journalist
SELECTED WRITING
The Intercept: Did Mexico's Top Cop Play a Role in the Killing of a DEA Informant?
The Intercept: The Public has Never Seen the U.S. Government Force-Feed Someone — Until Now
The Intercept: ICE Jail Nurse Sexually Assaulted Migrant Women, Complaint Letter Says
The Intercept: "He Just Empties You All Out": Whistleblower Reports High Number of Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Facility
"A Silent Pandemic": Nurse At ICE Facility Blows The Whistle On Coronavirus Dangers (Part of a broader series of stories on the Irwin County Detention Center. fFnalists for the 2021 Festisov International Journalism Awards for Civil Rights reporting.)
The Intercept: ICE's Immigration Detainees Protested Lack of Coronavirus Precautions -- And SWAT-Like Private Prison Guards Pepper-Sprayed Them
The Intercept: How Solitary Confinement Kills: Torture and Stunning Neglect End in Suicide at Privately Run ICE Prison (This story was later included in ICIJ's "Solitary Voices" project. Winner of New York Press Club award. Finalist for IRE awards.)
"The Takeaway," WNYC/PRX: ICE Records: Ill Migrant Continued Working in ICE Custody Until He Was Hospitalized. Three Weeks Later, He Died.
NPR: Women Testify Against Mexican Police For Sexual Torture In International Court
NACLA: Tepoztlán's Highway to Nowhere
USA Today/Reno Gazette-Journal: Mining company tied to Reno faces scrutiny for Guatemala operations
NPR/NextGenRadio: Underground Abortion: Lack of Access, Cost Spurs Clandestine Operation