Each day, Minnesota judges and prosecutors make life-altering decisions about children who break the law. Most kids end up entangled in the county court system, but some youth are offered an alternative, known as diversion. A child’s future can hinge on the path that is chosen.
Rather than helping develop care plans that would allow disabled Minnesotans to live in their homes, counties continue to steer thousands into facilities that promote dependency and isolation.
Nieman Lab’s home, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, on Tuesday announced the 84th class of Nieman Fellows. These 22 journalists will spend the coming year at Harvard. (More information, including how to apply for next year, is here.)
You may recognize some names from (among many other places) Nieman Lab stories. We wrote about Jorge Caraballo Cordovez‘s work at Radio Ambulante here. Pranav Dixit‘s reporting on misinformation in India has regularly appeared in our fake news column. And we’ve written about work by Natalia Viana at Agência Pública, Shereen Marisol Meraji at Code Switch, and Jakob Moll at Zetland.