The Adelanto Detention Facility is again in the center of controversy, allegedly using protests taking place outside the facility as an excuse to mistreat detainees.
Advocates ask supervisors to act now as fatalities mount and public health dept. allows COVID patients into facilities with poor track records.
Hospitals and clinics that recently faced financial collapse are reopening waiting rooms. But PPE shortages and staff-risk issues remain.
The Sunshine State shows there is more than one way to suppress the kinds of figures that reveal the virus’s true human cost.
In the midst of a pandemic, some insurance companies’ profits may be even higher than had been predicted before the coronavirus hit.
Since 2003, 19 detainees have died within Arizona’s detention centers.
The agency also scrubbed statistics on coronavirus deaths and cases at designated nursing homes from its website.
They died in parking lots, in hospitals, in train stations and in encampments. Now the county’s homeless must face the coronavirus.
Health experts worry that Los Angeles County officials might let COVID-19 “burn” through the population.
More than a third of Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression, a 300 percent increase over last year.
The bleakest chapter of the history of COVID-19 in Los Angeles will be devoted to the demise of nursing home residents.
Long-established inequities in America’s health care system have put poor people in the crosshairs of a medical disaster.
As eviction bans lift and temporary housing provisions end, what happens to those who can’t afford rent?
As California reopens, essential home care workers may have their hours cut.
A coronavirus outbreak swept through one Bay Area facility, leaving 16 dead. Was the home a disaster waiting to happen?
Thousands of California stylists and barbers are anxiously wondering: What’s the best way to reopen and start doing hair again – safely?
Capital & Main’s new series examines the challenges and concerns of employees working in close contact with the public or each other.
The COVID-19 crisis hits the state after a decade of rising economic inequality.
Even porn actors must work from home as one of the most intimate industries remains in lockdown.
Critics charge DeVos is exploiting a national public-health crisis to promote her agenda of privatizing public education.