Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.

Jackie Thomas was $29,134 in debt and in trouble with state regulators. She hadn’t slept in days. If a judge ruled against her, she’d fail the mothers who could only keep their jobs thanks to the 24-hour child care she offered.

For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way. He needed dialysis to stay alive. He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.

Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.

Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives — and liberty — disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection.

Why so many black families are losing their property.

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

A secret network of women is working outside the law and the medical establishment to provide safe, cheap home abortions.

After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.