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Public Health

WATCH: SANEs and survivors in the South, a listening session with the Gulf States Newsroom

Gulf States Newsroom staff

The Gulf States Newsroom hosted a virtual discussion of Drew Hawkins' reporting on the shortage of sexual assault nurse examiners in the region.
Public Health

Trauma-informed nurses help sexual assault survivors. Most hospitals don’t have them.

Drew Hawkins

Alabama has 44 certified SANEs for the entire state. Louisiana has 42. Mississippi only has 6 — for a population of almost three million.
Immigration

Denial, detention and deportation threats: The uphill battle for Cameroonian asylum seekers in Louisiana and Mississippi

Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

A Gulf States Newsroom investigation digs into the Deep South’s thorny regional immigration system and the obstacles and steep odds at every turn.