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 ...

Erik Ramsey, a 29-year-old with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, died by suicide in prison. In NC prisons mental health ...

A Douglas County District Court judge sentenced a 24-year-old Omaha man to serve anywhere from 19 to 20 years in prison for driving drunk and crashing into and killing a 29-year-old man in April.

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

As Mathew Padrow lay on the ground, faint from the blood loss of 13 stab wounds to his back, neck and head, he was most ...

If it becomes law, kids will have the right to a hearing within seven days to determine whether the acute psychiatric ...

The Uzbekistan government should immediately release and compensate the blogger and activist Valijon Kalonov who has been ...

"Enough is enough," Sanders said. "Arkansas has a chance to address this crisis head-on and help end our state's prison bed shortage, but we need to act now. The legislature must appropriate funds ...

That's two decades of chronic prison bed shortages, two decades of releasing violent offenders back into society because of lack of space, and two decades of worst-in-the-nation crime rates.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump commutes sentence of Ozy Media exec Carlos Watson before start of decade prison term in fraud case, AP source says.