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

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 iled multiple lawsuits against the county for deprivation of mental health ...

In partnership with L.A. County’s Office of Diversion and Reentry, these mental health courts can also further assess the alleged offenders for treatment and housing placement. Defendants appear ...

A Brisbane woman who allegedly attempted to gouge her foster daughter’s eye out was ordered by a judge to complete a mental ...

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

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

Children incarcerated at Long Creek Youth Development Center, Maine's only youth prison, have more behavioral health needs than most adults in the state's prison system. But advocates say those ...

The foster mother returned to Mental Health Diversion Court on Monday and a judge reviewed her progress report. Judge Jakubowski exonerated her $200,000 bail bond. Linder will remain on probation ...