José Olivares
Bilingual Investigative Journalist
SELECTED WRITING
The Guardian: Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office (Part 1) (Dec. 2024)
Biden extended contracts to private immigration jails despite reports of ‘horrific’ conditions (Part 2) (Dec. 2024)
Drop Site News: The U.S. Bought Pegasus for Colombia With $11 Million in Cash. Now Colombians Are Asking Why (Nov. 2024)
Drop Site News: Bush-Era CIA Torture Official Says Convicted Mexican Former Drug Czar is Innocent (Oct. 2024)
Drop Site News: "Hand Restraints and Black Out Goggles": Biden Administration Plans for Migrants Held at Guantanamo Bay Revealed (Sept. 2024)
Drop Site News / The Intercept Brasil: Leaked Chats Reveal a U.S.-Linked Prosecutor Is Behind the Assault on Ecuador’s Social Democratic Movement (Aug. 2024)
The Appeal: Investigators Wanted to Close an Abusive ICE Facility. Biden's Administration Extended Its Contract. (July 2024)
The Intercept: Did Mexico's Top Cop Play a Role in the Killing of a DEA Informant? (Jan. 2023)
The Intercept: The Public has Never Seen the U.S. Government Force-Feed Someone — Until Now (Nov. 2022)
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Winner of 2023 RTDNA Edward Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, Large Digital Organization
The Intercept: ICE Jail Nurse Sexually Assaulted Migrant Women, Complaint Letter Says (July 2022)
Business Insider: A leaked video exemplifies what Black migrants endure in US detention centers (March 2022)
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
Number of Women Alleging Misconduct by ICE Gynecologist Nearly Triples
ICE Medical Misconduct Witness Slated for Deportation is a U.S. Citizen, Says Lawyer
ICE Detention Center Shuttered Following Repeated Allegations of Medical Misconduct
Nothing is Changing": ICE Sends Detainees to Irwin Prison Despite Pledges to Close It
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A series of stories exposing allegations of medical abuse, misconduct, and negligence at the ICE Irwin County Detention Center.
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This series was a finalist 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 (May 2020)
The Intercept: How Solitary Confinement Kills: Torture and Stunning Neglect End in Suicide at Privately Run ICE Prison (Aug. 2019)
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This story was later included in ICIJ's "Solitary Voices" project.
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Winner of 2020 New York Press Club Award for Political Coverage, Online
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Finalist; 2019 Investigative Reporters and Editors; Print/Online Division 1
"The Takeaway," WNYC/PRX: ICE Records: Ill Migrant Continued Working in ICE Custody Until He Was Hospitalized. Three Weeks Later, He Died. (June 2019)
NPR: Women Testify Against Mexican Police For Sexual Torture In International Court (Nov. 2017)
NACLA: Tepoztlán's Highway to Nowhere (Nov. 2017)
USA Today/Reno Gazette-Journal: Mining company tied to Reno faces scrutiny for Guatemala operations (Sept. 2016)