by Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico, and Joel Jacobs, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Nowhere to Go New Mexico’s Troubled Foster Care System Near the pumps of a gas station in Las Cruces, New Mexico, […]
The state places foster teens with serious mental health conditions in shelters that don’t offer psychiatric services. When a crisis erupts, shelters call 911.