Kristen Hwang

Freed But Forgotten: A Proposition 47 Investigation In 2014 California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 47, which reduced low-level felony drug possession and theft crimes to misdemeanors. The law was intended to reduce prison populations and provide “hundreds of millions of dollars” for mental health and substance abuse programs for the formerly incarcerated, but three years … More Video

I am an award-winning multimedia journalist for the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif. My work has been published by USA TODAY, NBCNews.com, The Arizona Republic, the Center for Public Integrity and other outlets. I graduated summa cum laude with a master’s degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona … More About