Addiction and homelessness are a constant presence in L.A.'s mental health court. Its judge wants defendants to "feel like ...

Kaye's path to mental health court: A former legal aid attorney, federal public defender and civil rights attorney who’d f ...

California Head Start programs are in panic as the Trump administration threatens to cut the program, ending child care for ...

The jails of Riverside County are plagued with unusually high murder rates and recurring security failures by an ...

A federal housing complaint over a support animal set off a chain reaction in Napa County, exposing gaps in the mental health ...

The San Francisco Department of Public Health will learn next month if it received state funding that would help fulfill a ...

Mark Leno, who authored California’s medical parole law when he was a Democratic state senator, criticized prison officials ...

Special education is shifting to a different federal agency. Advocates fear the loss of expertise will harm students.

Almost half a year into the dispute, eight striking Kaiser mental health workers wrapped up a hunger strike as broken-off ...

Prisoners who qualify — excluding inmates sentenced to death or life without parole — can be placed in a community health ...