That state’s new drug reform is keeping users out of jail — but getting them help for addictions has been elusive.
Community & Public Health
The Cook County state’s attorney recently learned her former physical trainer is addicted to heroin and has been in and out of jail for it.
In Chicago, thousands of drug possession arrests are routinely tossed out every year. The cost to taxpayers? Millions. To those arrested? The loss of jobs, housing, freedom.
Part 1: For some Alaska villages, the lack of modern water and sewer service means more health risks
Many residents of rural Alaska suffer higher rates of illnesses because they lack basic infrastructure.
A newly released state-ordered audit found Virginia agencies have failed to competently provide information to the almost half a million residents who speak little to no English.
For 35 years, Fresno County’s Measure C — a half-cent sales tax dedicated to transportation — has dramatically shaped the landscape of metropolitan Fresno.
The BGA and Chicago Sun-Times analyzed 280,000 total drug possession arrests made in Cook County over nearly two decades. The data used was provided by The Circuit, the collaborative journalistic enterprise led by the BGA and Injustice Watch.
“More workers have died from COVID-19 in the last 18 months in the meat and poultry industry, than died from all work-related causes in the industry in the past 15 years,” as one expert testified.
Here’s how reporters can investigate contamination in their communities.