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Author Archives: Ellie Lightfoot

Ellie Lightfoot is a child welfare reporter with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Grad School of Journalism. They are also a 2022 National Fellow with USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism, and an independent audio and documentary producer, with bylines in ProPublica, FRONTLINE, VICE, and NPR.  Find more work at www.ellielightfoot.com. 

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Faced With COVID, A Desperate Man’s Sobriety, Survival Fell to His Mother When Rehab Center Evicted Him

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Kathryn Hurd, Ellie Lightfoot and Whitney Bryen August 15, 2022August 16, 2022

Oklahoma’s criminal justice system and state-funded rehabilitation program offered Josh McWhorter a chance to avoid prison and beat addiction — then abandoned him when he got sick.

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