MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment ...

Henry Mudari and Crisis Service Unit aims to diffuse problems by focusing on underlying issues with mental health and drug ...

T housands of people arrested each year in Texas are dealing with mental health issues. Some conditions can be treated with ...

Army veteran Jennifer Snook continues her mission of service at Dickson County Jail, helping inmates with mental health and ...

Behind bars I watched men beg for help and get turned away because they lacked a formal diagnosis before incarceration.

County, state and federal prisons are very good at keeping inmates secure while incarcerated. At the same time, many locations struggle with the “corrective” part of corrections because facilities are ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County officials say the community needs to have a better way for helping people in the legal system with mental health issues. For now, most of those people are being served by ...

They will be used for mental health deputies to respond to crisis calls. Mental health deputy Seth Stover said they average ...

Tonantzyn Beltran was in the midst of a severe mental health episode when she fatally stabbed her mother in January 2024, her ...

Of the total 5.30 lakh inmates lodged in prisons across the country as of Dec 31, 2023, as many as 9,095 inmates (1.7%) were reported to be battling mental illness. Of these, 3,722 (40.9%) were ...

The unacceptable state of mental health care in Washington is demonstrated by a single fact — Western State Hospital has not received funding from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid since 2 ...