Thirty-seven of Ohio's 88 counties have received funding through a grant program aimed at providing mental health and ...

The work of the new Fitness to Stand Trial Task Force has added urgency because planned cuts to Medicaid are likely to slash ...

Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same ...

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in ...

Efforts are underway to improve mental health care in Minnesota's jails, with counties and advocacy groups exploring new ...

State psychiatric hospitals nationwide have largely lost the ability to treat patients before their mental health deteriorates and they are charged with crimes. Driving the problem is a meteoric rise ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply. The shift has all but halted the possibility of care before a catastrophic ...

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in ...

A specialist court is tackling Victoria’s overflowing prison system by helping recidivist offenders with serious mental and ...

A regional jail diversion program was eliminated as part of a broader effort to centralize and standardize mental health care across the state.

BOOM. Ronda Deplazes had just gotten out of the shower and placed curlers in her long blond hair when she heard something slam against her front door.

Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fill vacant medical and mental health positions at prisons and state hospitals, California has little to show for it, according to a new report from ...