A writer’s friend was cured of hepatitis C, yet only 1 in 3 infected Americans get curative antivirals amid insurance ...
After 20 years in a California prison, Ursula Gomez was handed to ICE and deported to Mexico, a country she left at 5. Now ...
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The football players pushed on. “We are going to run until someone quits,” their coach was heard saying. They kept running in the intense Louisville heat, until one upperclassmen said he’d had enough.
In a corner of a large visiting hall at California State Prison, Corcoran, six men in purple caps and gowns sat in a circle on an early August afternoon, waiting to graduate. The ceremony did not ...
A health care company specializing in jails has rapidly expanded in California in recent years, securing dozens of lucrative public contracts while facing allegations in lawsuits and government ...
The day child welfare workers came to his house to take his kids away, James Nenema’s twins were 3.5 years old. “I had to bring Kallen up to, you know, and put him in the…” James Nenema said, his ...
A year-and-a-half ago, I met a father who told me his 13-year-old son had been charged with murder. His son hadn’t killed anyone, he claimed. Tennessee law permitted prosecutors to try him anyway. I’d ...
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Cherry DeJesus was a young Black girl growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, in the 1970s. She knew earlier than most: no one was going to protect her — not even her own mother. DeJesus says she was ...
This story is part of a series produced by Yereth Rosen, a participant in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 National Fellowship. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted health ...