José Olivares
Bilingual Investigative Journalist
SELECTED WRITING
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)