Three dozen people filtered into that room at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Small conversations here and there, but mostly quiet whispers while people moved to sit down in rows of blue-cushiond wooden ...

Down the stairs from the main courtroom in the Orange County Courthouse, Courtney Kennedy sits behind a wooden desk surrounded by four bare walls and answers a call from one of her clients. “There’s a ...

As research mounts showing that drug courts reduce recidivism and save money, government funding has followed. Drug courts, which steer low-level offenders with addictions into treatment programs ...

Three women get certificates and one man nears goal as program marks a milestone. It looked like a typical college class, with a few older adult learners sprinkled in. Most were bright-eyed and acted ...

Greg Pryer was used to experiencing on-the-job trauma. Pryer had followed a stint in the Marine Corps with a career as a New York City police officer. On the beat in the nation’s largest city was ...

A group of graduates is getting a chance at a new beginning as they start their sobriety journey. They just graduated from a Cook County Circuit Court Drug Treatment Program. For Eli Saul Mercado, 51, ...