Rep. Darya Farivar wants to cap the number of people counties can send to state hospitals for competency restoration services ...

Northeast Ohio Medical University will soon be able to train students to meet the shortage of mental health providers in Ohio ...

Nidia Heston always had a plan for her son Quin but nothing could have prepared her when her son’s school wouldn’t enroll him ...

Rep. Justin Humphrey filed a bill to move mental health services to the corrections department, but he says it was to draw ...

Labor is exacerbating the already catastrophic state of public sector mental health care, attacking long-established ...

As part of a proposed revamping of the state's behavioral health system, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte's administration is ...

Of all Illinois jails, Madison County has the most incidents in which they restrained incarcerated people for than 10 hours – ...

When a person is charged with a crime but found too mentally ill to participate in their defense, Washington state must offer them temporary treatment.

People languish for an average of 14 months in jail before receiving the mental health treatment that could allow them to ...

Disability Rights Oregon wants a judge to bar low-level defendants from being sent to the Oregon State Hospital without an ...

For years, states strictly limited the amount of time people could be institutionalized. With homelessness rising, some policymakers want to do more.