More help is now available for the mentally ill who’ve committed felonies and are now languishing in local jails. Thursday, the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield held a ribbon cutting and ...

A California physician has been placed on five years’ probation by the state’s medical board for administering a course of ...

Every time Anthony Ware got out of prison, he noticed the meth in Portland tasted more ... and homelessness are apparent at Oregon State Hospital, which has 546 psychiatric beds between its hospitals ...

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a ...

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

Many ways to improve treatment are expensive and could be in peril if Medicaid funding is slashed by the Trump administration ...

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday ...

No more suicides have been reported since the Jan. 19 death of 25-year-old David Whittington ... His mental health stabilized ...

Across New York, 125 beds were added at state-operated psychiatric centers. Greater Binghamton Health Center will have an additional 25 beds available. Twenty-five beds have been added at the ...

James Wales - who was convicted of murder in the 1984 killing of a Binghamton girl - has again been denied parole.