It's mid-May, a Monday evening, twilight in a third-floor classroom at the Rice University library. Soft light streams in through enormous windows and washes over a group of nervous students, all men, ...

When policy makers, advocates and the news media talk about health care for people convicted of crimes, the focus is generally on the kinds and quality of services provided to those who are behind ...

Some federal agencies are continuing to fire their recently hired or newly promoted staff despite a court ruling that deemed the justification for those firings unlawful, while others are responding ...

Dozens of beds at a newly-expanded mental health treatment center on the South Side had been sitting empty for months.