Susan Ferriss

Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
sferriss@publicintegrity.org
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Susan Ferriss has investigated a range of issues, from environmental destruction and real-estate fraud to police corruption and international drug trafficking. As a prize-winning Latin America correspondent for Cox Newspapers, her reports included stories on child labor, child migration and transnational gangs. She also covered California state government, politics and immigration at the Sacramento Bee. Susan is co-author of The Fight in the Fields, a history of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement.

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Criminologists say gun lobby strategy 'superficially simple'

Black students were being arrested for minor infractions, and five times more likely to get suspended than whites for same allegations

Representatives from American Families United testified before House Judiciary subcommittee on hardships of immigration bars

As Congress debates immigration reform, mental-health investigators urge legislators to consider children's welfare.

Push for more police post-Newtown runs up against concern about 'school-to-prison pipeline'

U.S. still tops, but rates have declined

Separated families meet with Rep. Gutierrez, hoping to be included in proposed reforms.

Students can be exploited more if they are suspended or expelled for misbehavior and left unsupervised alone.

New York advocacy group says state is not protecting kids in foster care

Juvenile judges latest group to express concern over armed guards in schools

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