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Local officials often say they have no choice but to jail people awaiting treatment for mental illness and substance abuse — even if they’re not charged with a crime. But some people have died in the system that's supposed to protect them.
I was 8 when my mother died. She died at 35 of breast cancer, though it would be years before I knew that...
He was a decorated soldier, a whistle-blower against torture. Then he was undone by his own mind — and a health care system that utterly failed him.
Now 3, “Baby L.” lives with a U.S. Marine and his wife, but her Afghan family claims she was taken under false pretenses. A court may soon decide.
Failure-to-protect laws are incarcerating women for other people’s violence. A mother is sentenced 12 more years than the man who assaulted her daughter.