For exposing COVID-19 outbreak, Black newspaper editor faces retaliation
By Judy Greenspan posted on January 19, 2021
What happens when a federal prisoner who has just become the Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper is paroled to a halfway house run by GEO Group? That company is one of the largest managers of lockdown units and ICE detention centers in the U.S.
Malik Washington with his fiancee, and San Francisco Bay View Managing Editor, Nube Brown.
Editor Malik Washington didn’t have to think twice about what to do. He investigated and discovered that GEO’s Taylor Street Center was covering up a COVID outbreak and used his journalism and organizing skills to blow the whistle on the corporation.