Poverty and Class

This article was produced with support from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund.

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.

“If the bus is running late, that makes me late, you know,” one resident said. “For my important things I have to do, I have no choice.”

Amner Martinez still doesn’t really know all the details from when his 74-year-old father Concepcion got really sick with COVID-19 near the beginning of the pandemic.

Maiya Ossipova was a divorced woman in her early forties with three kids when she met her future American husband on a dating website.

This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
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In Texas, those charged with crimes and found mentally incompetent are entitled to treatment at a state hospital before returning to jail and standing trial. The failing system waitlists hundreds. Sometimes they die sooner than receiving treatment.

This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include: