After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for ...

The Cascade County Sheriff’s Office will put $1.2 million to provide mental health services to inmates, and has seen an ...

A panel of judges found that fines were justified after California failed to staff its prisons with enough mental health ...

California prisons have failed for decades to provide staffing or treatment for many thousands of mentally ill inmates and ...

officials in Seneca County are working to improve mental health services for inmates at its jail to ensure they receive the care they need while behind bars. Mircea Handru, executive director of ...

The Oklahoma Legislature has taken a significant step toward addressing longstanding issues in the state’s mental health and ...

As the number of inmates across Missouri seeking mental health treatment rises, a senator who represents Buchanan County is looking to establish a treatment court for those in need of treatment.

An Atlanta teenager was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2023, but his mother said no one was able to get him the help he needed when she reached out. Now he's charged with killing his brother and ...

The lawsuit filed just over one month after Aguilar-Hurtado’s death said she was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge on ...

At the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center in Gering, roughly 50% of inmates suffer from some sort of mental illness ...

The judge ordered the woman, who was in a jail in Wheaton, to be transferred to a state-run mental health facility for treatment ... Complaints from the inmate’s daughter were ignored, the ...