The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service with its year-long investigation “of severe labor abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reform.”
The news agency described forced labor in settings from fishing trawlers to processing plants in southeast Asia. “Your seafood may come from slaves,” says the story published on March 25, 2015. “In the worst cases, numerous men reported maimings and even deaths on their boats.” One runaway slave told AP, “There must be a mountain of bones under the sea.”
To read the AP story, click here.