“Give me answers!” Melissa Welch shouts, arching her back and aiming her voice toward the flat façade of the Pima County Adult Detention Complex. Two months earlier, inside that jail, guards repeatedly shocked her little brother, Wade Welch, with a taser. Minutes later, he died. “Give me answers! Give me answers!” she screams again. Her […]
Author Archives: John Washington
John Washington is an investigative journalist based in Tucson with a focus on immigration and borders, as well as criminal justice and literature. His first book, "The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond," was published in 2020 by Verso Books. Twitter: @jbwashing
