Patrick Carroll will undergo mental health counseling for two years, in exchange for Los Angeles prosecutors dismissing a criminal case.

The May 2023 death of baby Phoenix — and the investigation by the Bay Area News Group that followed — forced a reckoning at ...

Judges in Ventura County are beginning to assess defendants charged with serious crimes and found incompetent to stand trial ...

She called the program “critical and vital,” and said a decrease in the number of people it could help would be “a huge ...

Certified Law Student Michaela Myers argued here in Yolo County Superior Court that the accused, a young mother, deserved ...

I’m a doctor who treats dying patients. People with mental illness who get trapped in the criminal justice system are facing ...