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After a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation found that landlords were turning low-cost housing into tourist hotels, the city ordered some building owners to comply with the law.

Several patients complained to the church or the state licensing board about inappropriate touching during therapy sessions. It was years before the therapist gave up his license.

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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

People going through the civil commitment process in Mississippi are regularly jailed as they await evaluation and treatment.

At least a dozen states have banned the practice of jailing people without charges while they await mental health treatment. But Mississippi routinely keeps people in jail during the civil commitment process.

Since 2006, at least 13 people have died in Mississippi county jails as they awaited treatment for mental illness or substance abuse.

Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.

The emergency management agency has paid just $3 million in claims out of $3.96 billion Congress allocated, and the bulk of the payments went to the cit...

Champaign News-Gazette. July 16, 2023.