Moments after a state hospital employee knocked on the door and told him to put on a shirt, the 61-year-old stared wide-eyed at a small smartphone screen transmitting his image into courtroom 7D of ...

U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby approved a settlement between the Utah Department of Human Services and the Disability Law Center, requiring a reduction in wait times at Utah State Hospital for ...

New state website supports longstanding complaints that hospitals have become a stopgap for holes in the Oregon mental health system. FILE - Patients fill in their answers to the prompt, “I dream to ...

Family claims administrators at Hawaiʻi's only public psychiatric hospital failed to institute basic safety protocols to ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing ...

Pilot programs in Kankakee and McHenry counties provide mental health care to defendants, from smaller jails, who have deemed ...

Men never convicted of a crime denied reading, exercise or human contact. Peter Minich’s condition has deteriorated since spending 6,300 hours in solitary confinement, according to his mother, Joanne ...

Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in an Alabama jail cell, waiting for court-ordered psychiatric treatment.