Brittany Hailer, Author at The Land

Brittany Hailer

Brittany Hailer is an award-winning investigative journalist and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a staff writer with The Marshall Project-Cleveland. She is the former co-founder and director of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and former Assistant Teaching Professor of Writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

Ohio bill could force state to shut down troubled residential treatment facilities

By Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● April 22, 2026

The proposal comes just months after The Marshall Project – Cleveland exposed violence at a residential youth facility northeast of Columbus.

New videos show ‘absolutely egregious care’ in 2025 Cuyahoga County Jail death

By Mark Puente, Doug Livingston, Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● April 15, 2026

Ohio reopens review of Jennifer Wade’s death after county officials failed to provide body cam footage.

Deadly errors: Why people keep dying inside Cuyahoga County’s Jail

By Doug Livingston, Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● February 2, 2026

Jail administrators fail to fix mistakes that continue to cost lives, an analysis of state records by The Marshall Project – Cleveland shows.

‘Substantial risk’: Mohican Young Star Academy admissions suspended as state investigates

By Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● December 6, 2025

Weeks after The Marshall Project – Cleveland found escalating violence, Ohio’s embattled youth treatment center is once again facing scrutiny.

‘It was chaos’: How an Ohio youth treatment center tried to put an end to rising violence

By Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● November 6, 2025

A year after taking over Mohican Young Star Academy, new owners and leadership face questions from workers, police and neighbors about its direction.

‘A significant failure’: Experts cite mistakes in Cleveland hospital restraint death

By Doug Livingston, Brittany Hailer, Mark Puente & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● October 22, 2025

Tasha Grant told a deputy and hospital staff 23 times that she could not breathe. Instead of an evaluation, she got handcuffs and skepticism.

Broken showers, black mold and clogged toilets: Cuyahoga County Jail is disgusting

By Brittany Hailer, Ivy Scott, Daja E. Henry & The Marshall Project ● Communities ● October 9, 2025

Overcrowding, outdated facilities and poor management have led to filthy conditions for jail detainees.

‘She had no legs. Why would they restrain her?’: A Cleveland woman died in custody

By Brittany Hailer, Doug Livingston, Mark Puente & The Marshall Project ● Government ● September 25, 2025

Officials said Tasha Grant’s heart stopped from the restraint. A special prosecutor is reviewing the actions of hospital workers and a deputy.

East Cleveland Jail closes after inspections detail various violations

By Brittany Hailer & The Marshall Project ● Public Safety ● August 25, 2025

The East Cleveland Jail — made infamous in Season 3 of the podcast “Serial” and at the center of a $30 million court judgment — quietly closed in December after two inspections found dozens of violations.

What happens when someone dies inside one of America’s worst jails?

By The Marshall Project & Brittany Hailer ● Government ● July 25, 2025

In Cuyahoga County, a jail death triggers mandatory investigations. Here’s what all Ohio sheriffs are supposed to do, and how to check their work.

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