Immigrants with harrowing accounts of domestic abuse were detained after contact with local police, sometimes after calling them for help. "I had suffered from domestic violence,” said one woman, whose daughter was still nursing when she was detained. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”

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I’ll leave you with this:

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While my byline won’t appear in the Statesman anymore, I’m not giving up on this industry — even if industry executives seem to be giving up on us. (More on that later) So thank you to everyone who has ever picked up my call, responded to my “quick” emails, & shared a sliver of their lives with me.

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But the few stories I’ve gotten to produce about the state’s prison system are what solidified the type of journalist I’ve strived to be: someone relentless not only in their reporting but in the care and humanity shown to those they're reporting on.

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Damn, this is a blow to Idaho criminal justice reporting. Alex has consistently been an incredible source of original reporting on issues we need to know more about. Sorry this is happening to her and others at the @idahostatesman.com

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