Bernice Yeung

Urban Planning 101
By Bernice Yeung | October 2008

All That Jazz in One Tiny Attic
By Bernice Yeung | February 1, 2007

Freeze! You’re Under Examination
Making sure people get health care when they leave prison saves taxpayer money and protects public health. It may even help them stay out of prison.
By Bernice Yeung | July 2009

Succor. Succor in the Court.
There’s a problem with problem-solving courts: Taxpayers don’t understand how well they work.
By Bernice Yeung | August 2008

Taser’s Delirium Defense
How lawyers used junk science to explain away stun-gun deaths.
By Bernice Yeung | March/April 2009

Constant Sorrow
It wasn’t Toto Constant’s human rights violations in Haiti that finally landed him in prison. It was mortgage fraud in Long Island.
By Bernice Yeung | May/June 2008

My news blog: Prisons & Public Health
Chronically ill parolees in California often return to communities that lack adequate health services — and budget woes and litigation are expected to force the early release of tens of thousands of inmates from the state's overcrowded prisons. My reported blog on Newsdesk.org tracks the issue.

He’s a Model? Consider the Odds
By Bernice Yeung | December 2, 2007

The Jukebox Is From Juilliard
By Bernice Yeung | September 12, 2008

So Open It Hurts
Tara Hunt and Chris Messina blogged and twittered about their romance to all of geekdom as if it were one of their utopian open-source projects. Sharing their breakup has been a lot harder.
By Bernice Yeung |August 2008

The Secret Life of the Avenues
That innocuous house or shop next door — why are the feds busting down its doors? Because small-time Asian brothels are proliferating in sleepy Bay Area neighborhoods like the Sunset, and what goes on inside can be an international crime.
By Bernice Yeung | April 2005

Innocence Arrested
Albert Johnson was exonerated for a crime he didn’t commit, but not before spending over a decade in prison. Why guiltless people get jailed — and how to stop it.
An SF Weekly special report by Bernice Yeung | October 29, 2003

Dancing With the Butoh Masters
From their odd sushi bar on a seedy corner of the Mission, world-famous dancers Hiroko and Koichi Tamano try to preserve a bizarre, mysterious art.
By Bernice Yeung | July 17, 2002

The Land of Blood & Money
Foreign workers coming into the country for high-paying tech jobs often bring wives with them. When these women are beaten and abused, they have nowhere to run.
By Bernice Yeung | May 3, 2000

Opening Pandora's Box
Once-secret documents reveal the tobacco industry's battle to gut anti-smoking education in California. Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and former Gov. Pete Wilson helped.
By Bernice Yeung | November 17, 1999

Weeping With the Enemy
Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son at the World Trade Center. And then she found the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui.
By Bernice Yeung | September 5, 2006