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Hailey Closson


Hailey Closson is the Daily Dot’s spring 2024 FOIA intern. She is a Journalism and English student at the University of Maryland and has interned at the Baltimore Sun, worked for Capital News Service, the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion coordinator for her student paper, the Diamondback.

Academical Village at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville(l), Women in prison(r)

EXCLUSIVE: How a century-old law keeps Virginia’s prestigious public universities tied to prison labor

The law has been on the books for almost a century.

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A fisheye view of Lake Lanier in Atlanta Georgia

Inside the tortured history of the internet’s most famous haunted lake

Public records show not every drowning death makes the news.

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