Margie Mason

Margie Mason is medical and investigative reporter for The Associated Press. Mason was part of a small team of female investigative journalists for the Associated Press who worked tirelessly on a story about the fishing industry in Southeast Asia that resulted in the freeing of more than 2,000 slaves. They won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the story in 2016.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Margie Mason

Labor

Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
January 31, 2024 By Robin McDowell And Margie Mason
A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
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U.S.

Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires
September 23, 2022 By Margie Mason And Robin McDowell
Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.
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World

Top consumer brands, big banks linked to brutal palm oil worker abuses
September 24, 2020 By Margie Mason And Robin McDowell
Some of the brands you buy every week at the grocery store have links to brutal abuse of workers in Southeast Asia's palm oil industry.
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U.S.

Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic
May 12, 2020 By Robin McDowell And Margie Mason
As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.
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U.S.

Parents fear for their children’s safety as coronavirus hits juvenile jails
April 28, 2020 By Margie Mason And Robin McDowell
“This could be life or death for my child,” said one mother.
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