This story as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Housing and Homeslessness
In recent years, there have been efforts to increase other competency restoration alternatives – like jail-based or outpatient methods – but for some people, those options are not always available.
Moms talk about what it’s like to be pregnant in jail, and about their lives before and after incarceration.
An examination of shortfalls in Texas' oversight of the state hospital waitlist spotlights unreliable data and records that aren’t kept, like the race and ethnicity of people on the waitlist and how many die each year before getting to the hospital.
Part six of a 20-month long investigation looking into hygiene stations that the City of Los Angeles distributed to homeless encampments.
By October 2021, the number of people stuck in jail waiting for a state hospital bed had grown to a new record of 1,838 people.
“They often refer to us as a restorative justice court, where we focus on assisting repeat offenders and connecting them to services so that those repetitive offenses stop,” said the court's administrator.
Home designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.
This article was produced as part of a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 National Fellowship, which provided training, mentoring, and funding to support this project.
Other work by Sara Satullo includes:
2 new projects slated to bring 95 new apartments to Bethlehem’s
Unhoused people who use drugs are reversing overdoses and saving hundreds of lives each year.