Amy Yurkanin is a reporter in ProPublica’s South unit and is based in Alabama.

Before ProPublica, she worked for almost 10 years at Al.com, where she covered health care, women’s issues and criminal justice. Her work on pregnancy criminalization has appeared in The Marshall Project and The Washington Post. It also led to the release of several pregnant and postpartum women from a jail in rural Alabama.

She has won an award from the Association of Health Care Journalists and been a finalist for awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Online News Association. Before Alabama, she worked in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Greensboro, North Carolina. She lives in Birmingham with her husband, children and cat.