All posts tagged "Fresno"

Last year, Jennifer Reisz’s college-age daughter, Megan, was kicked in the chest multiple times by the family’s horse. Megan fell to the ground, unable to move or speak. Though she was alone, her Apple Watch detected her distress and called 911. She was taken to a hospital in Clovis, a city in Fresno County, near where the Reisz family lives. But the severity of Megan’s injuries — four broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung — prompted doctors to transport her 12 miles by ambulance to the Level I trauma center at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno. While Megan was still recovering ......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Nia MooreWeathers first heard about California’s sweeping plan to shutter its youth prisons and transform the state’s juvenile justice system, she was filled with hope. As a community organizer for the Sacramento nonprofit Youth Forward, she saw it as a long-overdue opportunity to reimagine how incarcerated youth are housed and treated. Juvenile offenders would serve their time closer to home, in settings that emphasized mental health care and other supportive services. But before long, MooreWeathers and other advocates across the state say, they realized it would tak......