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This April 14, 2015 staff file photo shows the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Mental Health Unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.   Hans Gutknecht/Los Angeles Daily News/File Los Angeles County jails have frequently been referred to as the largest de facto ental health facility in the country. On any given day, the region’s jails house and treat an average of 3,500 to 4,000 mentally ill inmates -- more than the number of patients managed in the entire...

By Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2019 A high school senior decided recently that she wants to become sexually active with her boyfriend. But she is not yet comfortable talking to her mom about birth control and would be unable to get to a doctor’s appointment on her own. Instead, she walked over to the new well-being center at school during a free period. It was easy. Planned Parenthood runs a sexual healthcare clinic at Esteban Torres High School in East L.A. once a week.