In this episode, we talk with award-winning investigative journalist Dani Garavelli, whose reporting for the London Review of Books on the suicides of Katie Allan and William Lindsay at Polmont Young Offenders Institution has been nominated for a British Journalism Award. Dani has spent years uncovering the systemic failures that contributed to these deaths — and has also reported some of Scotland’s most significant recent stories, from the Sheku Bayoh case to the Alex Salmond trial, as well as long-form investigations into domestic abuse, youth justice and institutional accountability. In our conversation we talk about how she gained the trust of grieving families, what her reporting revealed about Scotland’s justice and care systems, how she structures complex features and what advice she has for young journalists who want to hold powerful institutions to account.You can read Dani's award-nominated feature "Jailed, Failed, Forgotten: Deaths in Custody" at https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n03/dani-garavelli/jailed-failed-forgotten and follow her on X @DaniGaravelli1J-Lab is a podcast by the Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University