A new reporting project will look at how injuries and killings at the hands of L.A. County Sheriff Deputies impact the health of survivors, families and their communities.
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Four years after the rape of a woman at Hacienda HealthCare launched reforms, critics say the state is still not doing enough to protect people with IDD from abuse.
Growing up isn’t easy for anyone. But for someone with an intellectual or developmental disability, it can feel impossible.
Almost nobody has been moved into permanent supportive housing.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says Michigan should improve how it regulates the usage of a controversial tactic educators deployed nearly 94,000 times since lawmakers tried to tamp down on the maneuvers.
A review of internal records and interviews with a dozen current and former health department staff show what expertise it possesses has long been muzzled or ignored.
Nisha thought that violence in a marriage was simply what every Indian wife ‘had to accept’ in her husband’s home. She was only 24.
The change follows a Sun-Times/Better Government Association investigation last year that documented the impact of “dead end” drug arrests in which people are briefly locked up, only to see the charges soon dismissed.
Michigan educators have secluded and restrained students nearly 94,000 times over the past five school years, a Free Press investigation found.
Lawmakers sought to restrict the use of seclusion and restraints on students in Michigan schools back in 2016. It was only supposed to be used for emergencies, they said.