The Yale Investigative Reporting Lab with Sarah Stillman

The Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale, founded and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Yale professor in the practice Sarah Stillman, supports young journalists in deep reporting for both local and national audiences. 

In 2024, Sarah Stillman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, began looking into a tip she’d received about the starvation-related death of a 65-year-old Arizona woman, Mary Faith Casey. While incarcerated in a county jail for nearly four months and suffering from severe, untreated mental illness, Casey’s weight had plummeted from around 145 pounds to 90.

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