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Daffodil Altan

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As seen in: El Tímpano, PBS Frontline, PBS, GBH News (Boston, MA), Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)
Investigative journalist/doc filmmaker/correspondent @FrontlinePBS; Lecturer: UC Berkeley @ucbsoj; On the boards of: @fundFIJ, @LatinoJournosCA; Emmy-winning.

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Questioning solitary confinement for teens at Rikers Island

Questioning solitary confinement for teens at Rikers Island

TRANSCRIPT JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we turn to an issue many state and local penal systems are increasingly concern…

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Daffodil J. Altan joins El Tímpano as Managing Editor

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By Daffodil Altan Verified
| El Tímpano
Community-powered immigration news from the Bay Area. Welcome to El Tímpano’s Weekly Dispatch. I’m Daffodil Altan, El Tímpano’s new managing editor, filling in for Erica Hellerstein this week to introduce myself. A few years ago I was co-teaching a course called Undocumented America at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and on our last day of class, my co-instructor Andrés Cediel invited an alum of the school to speak to our students.
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Rikers Island is eliminating juvenile solitary confinement. Now what?

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By Trey Bundy, Daffodil Altan Verified
| Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Verified
For years, New York City’s Department of Correction has worked to conceal its practice of putting adolescent inmates in solitary confinement. But this week, the agency announced plans to eliminate such confinement for 16- and 17-year-old inmates. The swift action indicates that juvenile solitary confinement has become a human rights issue that officials nationwide can no longer ignore.
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Interview: Daffodil Altan talks with Al Letson

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By Daffodil Altan Verified, Al Letson
| KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA) Verified
Daffodil Altan worked on the investigation of sexual abuse of women janitors for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. While she was trying to find women who were assaulted and ask them about their experiences, Daffodil realized she had someone who could talk to her … someone very close to home. She shared her story with Reveal host Al Letson.
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