Drawn in thick marker along the map of upstate New York, the line snaked down the Niagara River and zigzagged east to outline a swath of Buffalo and its surrounding neighborhoods. But one area of the city — neighborhoods in east Buffalo, where...
Phillip Cho is a paranoid schizophrenic. Cho tells L.A. Weekly that, upon arriving at the prison facility on Bauchet Street, deputies made him walk through a spray of Mace as they mocked, "Welcome to Twin Towers." (The Sheriff's Department says it has...
Corrections officials in California will make significant changes in the use of solitary confinement for mentally ill prisoners, revising decades-old policies that have kept thousands of inmates who have psychiatric disorders in isolation. The revised...
In the summer of 2012, the year this city broke its own record for homicides, there were 21 people murdered here. This summer, there were six. Just as remarkably, with shootings down 43 percent in two years, and violent crime down 22 percent, Osvaldo...
She lay so still as I approached her bed, I thought she was asleep. Or dead. Her eyes were open. “Mom?” I asked. Her gaze tilted toward me, but she said nothing. It was 8:30 a.m. Only weeks earlier, she would have been in the kitchen by...
Got the flu? Or a new baby? Perhaps a little one with chicken pox? In most countries, your employer must pay your wages if you stay home sick or to care for others. Not in America. But a growing grass-roots movement aims to change that —...
Children involved with Child Protective Services experience high rates of chronic and cumulative interpersonal trauma and adversity, referred to as complex trauma, that can have a profoundly negative impact on well being across the life course. Child...
The barbershop has always been more than a place to get a trim and a shave for African American men. It’s a place to talk sports, debate politics, and swap stories. Now it may also be a site for early medical intervention for high blood...
While budgets for child and adolescent mental health services are being frozen or cut in the UK, China is seeking to expand provision, promote psychotherapeutic approaches and adopt preventative measures. Since 2012 Beijing nurseries and schools have...
Illinois has joined a growing number of states with juvenile ombudsman programs intended to help protect the rights of youth in custody. “It is essential for the safety of our incarcerated children that these public facilities be subject to...
The Denver Post’s Jennifer Brown and Christopher N. Osher are no strangers to Colorado’s child welfare system. In 2012, the two teamed up for “Failed to Death,” an investigative series on the preventable deaths of abused and...
Colorado's child-protection system is overburdened and may need 574 more caseworkers — a 49 percent increase — to handle the work, according to a state study released Monday. The study also recommended the hiring of 122 new supervisors. In...
Children with developmental delays stand a better chance of getting the early-intervention services they need if clinicians take the time to document screening efforts and follow-up with a simple telephone call, investigators say. When a large...
Four months after a federal judge in Sacramento declared that conditions for mentally ill inmates in the state’s prisons were “horrific,” California corrections officials unveiled sweeping new policies that will house them in...
Some of the state's most influential lawmakers on Monday called on California's foster care system to stop the reckless prescribing of psychiatric medications to troubled children, demanding the state quit spending tens of millions of tax dollars on...