States with anti-abortion policies are refusing to track maternal mortality; Survivors reach settlements after widespread sexual abuse at women’s prison FCI Dublin

Today our show opens with Cassandra Jaramillo, an investigative journalist and reporter at ProPublica. Her latest story for ProPublica, co-reported with Kavitha Surana, Mariam Elba, Robin Fields and Ziva Branstetter, is titled “Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.” Follow Cassandra on social media here.

Then: San Francisco residents received emergency alerts to their phones this month warning of a tsunami, and days later, a tornado. Is the city doing enough for unhoused people to find safety during emergencies? We talk with Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.

And, survivors of the rampant abuse inside the federal women’s prison FCI Dublin, in Dublin, California, have reached settlements in two lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons. One settlement provides $116 million for some victims, while the other forces the Bureau of Prisons to accept oversight at several facilities. Some of the survivors of this government-funded sexual abuse are also asking President Biden for clemency at the end of his term. We’re speaking with attorney Amaris Montes of Rights Behind Bars and FCI Dublin survivor Griselda Muniz.

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