Daphne Chen

Daphne Chen is an award-winning investigative/data journalist for the USA TODAY Network in Florida with a focus on covering abuse and neglect in social services. As a reporter at the Phnom Penh Post, she revealed a network of bribes that allowed a relative of the Prime Minister to run an illegal gambling ring. At the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, she uncovered the deadly consequences of a months-long waitlist at the state mental hospital.

Deseret News •

The new asylums: How Utah traps the mentally ill behind bars

Nearly 70 mentally ill men and women who are supposed to be receiving treatment are instead trapped in jail cells across Utah. They're getting sicker. They're dying. And they're not supposed to be there.
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Phnom Penh Post •

Documents at cockfighting ring suggest network of payoffs

A trove of documents left behind at a shuttered cockfighting arena suggest a network of organised payments to police and government officials who turned a blind eye to the gambling ring run by Prime Minister Hun Sen's nephew-in-law.
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