Stein will primarily serve mentally ill offenders from Clark County, but state officials will continue to transport some of them to Lake's Crossing, said Cody Phinney, administrator for the state ...

Mental health issues aren’t ‘good’ or ‘bad’ nor are they the consequences of someone’s actions: they just are.

Locking up the mentally ill has a long history The prospect of removing people from communities to be put in institutions has been a project of social control ...

Photos sent by Giuffre from her room at Royal Perth Hospital, and shared with the outlet by Giuffre’s younger brother Sky ...

Mental health experts say most police departments need to quadruple the amount of training that recruits receive for dealing with the mentally ill, requiring as much time in the crisis ...

Medical experts from Harvard previously expressed concerns about Donald Trump's mental stability, questioning his suitability to be President. This warning had initially emerged during the New ...

Khansa Hussain was arrested in Lahore for torturing and killing animals, posting disturbing content online. Authorities rescued live animals and registered a case under the Wildlife Protection Act.

No, droves of mentally ill people haven’t been yanked off the streets, thrown into padded wagons and medicated against their will. Actually, the first year of California’s CARE Court action ...

The caller, a mentally ill resident left in charge of three others, told police in September 2012 that fellow resident Brian Claunch was threatening to stab him over some pilfered soft drinks.

An attempt to keep a schizophrenic man out of Rikers Island — where deplorable conditions for the mentally ill have been well documented — ran into a brick wall recently.

Acknowledging the role of mental illness in such cases is particularly urgent in a society that has delegated the dirty work of warehousing the mentally ill to penal institutions — places like ...

The Charleston County jail is scheduled to open a restoration unit, part of a statewide effort to expand the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's ability to treat mentally ill defendants ...