The court-issued monitor for Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake released a report Friday on conditions at the notorious juvenile facilities. It was the monitor’s 22nd visit to the prisons, and revealed ...

According to the National Drought Monitor, 54.11% of the contiguous U.S. is covered by some form of drought, which is up from 53.21% last week. Drought expanded across the South, with nearly 70% of ...

More than a dozen reports from an independent monitor overseeing Saint Francis Hospital spotlight serious issues concerning patient care, including two patient deaths, related to inadequate staffing ...

AG Peter Nickles push to have the city’s child welfare system removed from federal court oversight has hit a road block. In a very non-shocking report [PDF] released today, the Center for the Study of ...

Oakland's Police Department has reached the highest level of compliance ever in its decade-old effort to comply with court-ordered reforms stemming from a class-action lawsuit that accused police of ...