This week for BuzzFeed News, Amanda Chicago Lewis reports on the inmates who are the front line in California’s battle against wildfires. Read that and these other stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
The Prisoners Fighting California’s Wildfires — BuzzFeed News
As climate change makes the role of inmate firefighters in California increasingly crucial, Americans are beginning to ask whether the type of low-level offenders who qualify for the program even deserve to be locked up. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photograph by Wes Schultz
The Red Cross' Secret Disaster — ProPublica
After Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Isaac, the Red Cross says it delivered 17 millions of meals and millions more in relief items to needy Americans. But according to an investigation by Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger, and Laura Sullivan, "The Red Cross botched key elements of its mission after Sandy and Isaac, leaving behind a trail of unmet needs and acrimony." Read it at ProPublica.
Catherine Barde/American Red Cross via Flickr
Jim Crow Returns — Al Jazeera America
An important investigation by Greg Palast: "Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed in at least one battleground state, and the numbers are expected to climb..." Read it at Al Jazeera America.
Photograph by Zach D. Roberts for Al Jazeera America
The Undocumented Immigrants Who Rebuilt New York After Sandy — BuzzFeed News
As Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters receded from the New York metropolitan area, much of the hardest, dirtiest, and most dangerous work fell to immigrant day laborers. Their stories, in their own words, as told to BuzzFeed News’ David Noriega. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
David Noriega / BuzzFeed
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