Emily Previti

Emily Previti

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Emily Previti is an audio reporter at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. She is an award-winning journalist who’s spent the past decade telling overlooked stories about challenges facing communities across Pennsylvania and beyond. As an audio producer for Kouvenda Media, Emily launched longform podcast Obscured. She was senior reporter for statewide public media collaboration Keystone Crossroads and covered voting rights for NPR affiliate WITF and The GroundTruth Project. Emily also covered Harrisburg’s debt crisis for PennLive, served as a watchdog reporter for The Press of Atlantic City and reported for the Northwest Herald. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Why elections mean faster state budgets in Pennsylvania
The vast majority of state budgets have been late during the past two decades in Pennsylvania – but in non-election years, negotiations drag on three times as long, according to an analysis by the Capital-Star. This year, for example, with...
ICEd Out, Episode Four: Q&A with Emily Previti and Tim Lambert
As with any reporting project, some information gets left on the cutting room floor. So, what we’d like to do is pull back the curtain a bit on what went into the work the ICEd Out limited series from Folo...
ICEd Out, Episode One: A community in limbo
In recent months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security spent more than $1 billion buying nearly a dozen warehouses in several states. The plan is to convert them into immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation...
ICEd Out, Episode Two: ‘Couldn’t get much worse’
If you haven’t caught the first part of our series, we recommend checking it out first before starting this installment. ICEd Out is a deep dive by The Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s Emily Previti into how Schuylkill County could be affected by...
ICEd Out, Episode Three: ‘Who holds them accountable?’
If you haven’t caught part one or part two of our series, we recommend checking it out first before starting this installment. ICEd Out is a deep dive by The Pennsylvania Capital-Star’s Emily Previti into how Schuylkill County could be...
Preview — ICEd Out: Detention center plans meet resistance in Pennsylvania’s coal region.
On Wednesday, May 27, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star will launch an audio series (along with digital stories) called “ICEd Out: Detention center plans meet resistance in Pennsylvania’s coal region.” Our audio reporter Emily Previti spent the past few months looking into...
ICE withdraws appeal of Pa. environmental directives tied to warehouse purchases
This story was updated at 11:27 a.m. July 23 to add a response from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has abandoned its fight to connect to local water and sewage systems serving two warehouses in...
Future uncertain for Pennsylvania warehouses after ICE pivot
Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to have abandoned plans for converting some of its new warehouses to detention facilities, many questions remain about the future of the properties. A big one, at least in Pennsylvania, is how to offset...
Schuylkill County wrestles with spectre of immigration detention center plan
Key points A 7,500-person ICE detention center planned for a former Big Lots warehouse in Tremont Township would add more people to the area than live in any community in Schuylkill County, except the largest – Pottsville (pop. 13,000). Residents...
ICE fighting DEP orders on two Pennsylvania detention center sites
This story was updated to add responses from the state Department of Environmental Protection and federal Department of Homeland Security at 5:15 p.m., Thursday, April 9. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has decided to appeal state orders stalling two detention...
Pa. lawmakers announce caucus to fight human trafficking
This story was updated Wednesday, March 25, to add comment from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration. State lawmakers have launched a bipartisan caucus focused on combatting human trafficking. The goal is to facilitate passing legislation to address the issue, according to...
Compassionate release expansion among justice reforms with bipartisan state House support
Just 54 people have been freed from prison during the past 15 years through Pennsylvania’s system to release incarcerated people with serious medical conditions. A measure with bipartisan support would overhaul the process, expanding eligibility and saving the state millions...