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Photography Gallery: Faces of Mental Illness
Modesto Bee/CHCF Center for Health ReportingEveryone pictured in this 12-person photo gallery has a mental illness. They live in this community. A daughter. An uncle. A sister. A friend. A neighbor. A co-worker. They are us. Photography by Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting. More…
Normalizing Mental Illness: One Mom's Hope
Modesto Bee/CHCF Center for Health ReportingJoyce Plis directs the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Modesto, California. She's a hero to sick people who have nowhere else to turn. Her son Eric, 46, has schizophrenia. Photography, audio and production by Lauren M. Whaley/CHCF Center for Health Reporting. More…
Small Dreams: Mental Illness and Primary Care
Modesto Bee/CHCF Center for Health ReportingMatt Freitas, nurse practitioner, treats people with mental illness, including his daughter, who has schizophrenia. The number of patients seeking treatment for mental illness has tripled over the past three years, Freitas says. Photography, audio and production by Lauren M. Whaley, CHCF Center for Health Reporting. More…
After the Chino Prison riot
Southern California Public RadioOver three days, KPCC investigates allegations of inmate mistreatment at the California Institution for Men in Chino following a bloody 11-hour riot Aug. 8, 2009. The riot left some 200 men injured. It took authorities until sunrise to contain the violence. More…
Remembering the Tragedy
Recordnet.comTwenty years ago, a man walked onto a Stockton elementary school playground with an assault weapon and started shooting. In his wake, five children died, 31 were wounded and a scarred community was left to pick up the pieces. The victims continue to look forward and say we owe it to those who died not to forget. More…
Sayre Fire Survivors Tell Their Stories
Los Angeles Daily NewsResidents in the path of a fast-moving Southern California wildfire talk about losing their homes and moving on. More…
The Black Vote
UC Berkeley Graduate School of JournalismThe African-American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama. Black voters are largely choosing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, who Toni Morrison affectionately called the "first black president." Of those interviewed in Oakland on Super Tuesday, the vote leaned heavily towards Barack Obama and no one voted Republican. More…
Habeas Project
UC Berkeley Graduate School of JournalismBefore 1992, battered women in California who killed their abuser went to prison without the opportunity to show how years of abuse led to murder. In many cases, such testimony would have reduced their sentences. Since then, California law has changed and nearly 30 women have been released early for their crimes. These are the stories of 19 of these women freed since 2002. More…
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