A state agency is violating Florida law by failing to promptly transfer mentally ill inmates to state hospitals, leaving ...

Unveiled earlier this week, the Senate’s version of the state budget includes $409 million to build a new 300-bed mental ...

Georgia lawmakers are pushing for changes to how the state handles mental health.

In court filings described by Florida Politics, the Department of Children and Families acknowledged that hundreds of defendants are waiting well past the 15-day cutoff. According to that reporting, ...

People with severe mental illness often cycle in and out of psychiatric hospitals, emergency rooms and jail cells. North Carolina lawmakers want to put a stop to it, but that’s easier said than done.

In 2014, Paul Gionfriddo, a mental health professional, wrote a searing narrative, “Losing Tim,” about his failure to rescue ...