Moments after a state hospital employee knocked on the door and told him to put on a shirt, the 61-year-old stared wide-eyed at a small smartphone screen transmitting his image into courtroom 7D of ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply. The shift has all but... How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals ...

The family of a mentally ill man who killed his father while in a psychotic state has sued the hospital that discharged him days before. The lawsuit reveals new details about what happened at the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing ...