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J Vasquez spent 25 years incarcerated for gang violence rooted in childhood trauma. Now 49, he's healed, works as CURYJ's ...

Doctors in membership-based arrangements generally cap their practices at a few hundred patients, a fraction of the 2,000 to ...

The Clancy case provides an opportunity for journalists to step away from reveling in the shocking details and jury dynamic ...

Police violence is usually covered as a criminal justice or hard news story, but research makes clear it's also a public ...

A reporter looked at data from two Central Valley counties and found people who had domestic wells were more likely than not ...

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When Shawn remembers jail, he thinks about the noise. “It’s like you’re entering hell on earth,” he said. “A lot of yelling, a lot of hollering, a lot of talking, a lot of nonsense, cursing, swearing, ...

When excluded from mainstream institutions, African Americans have historically turned to their own ingenuity to bridge critical gaps. Discriminatory practices, “redlining” and segregation created the ...

The story was originally published in The Observer with support from our 2026 California Health Equity Fellowship. The breakroom at the clinic was supposed to be a place of respite — a brief moment ...

Shawn Hatcher has now spent a quarter of a century in prison. He is incarcerated at a correctional facility in northwestern Tennessee, along a bend in the Mississippi. Every Monday and Friday, he ...

The emergency department is the one place in health care mandated by law to provide care regardless of insurance, status, or ability to pay. It’s supposed to be our “safety net.” For tens of millions ...