alysia_santo_300Alysia Santo is a staff writer for The Marshall Project.

She has covered for-profit jail medical companies, sexual abuse in women’s prisons, and other issues in New York’s detention facilities for the Albany Times Union. In addition, she wrote the newspaper’s weekly “Inside Politics” column, reporting on government issues.

Santo was previously an assistant editor for Columbia Journalism Review, and holds a masters degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.