The study found the mentally ill are swept up by low-level criminal offenses and kept in state hospitals too long, confirming ...

But efforts to replace the old facility — a cramped, aging building from the 1970s that was planned by an architect who designed prisons — appear to have hit a roadblock. An architectural firm hired ...

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Pennsylvania’s competency system is in crisis, according to a recent state-backed study. The state’s competency restoration system is part of the criminal justice process. If someone is charged with ...

A mental-health patient was stuck in a hospital’s emergency department for five nights – believed to be a national record – ...

From sleeping on staircases and bare floors to battling mosquitoes, rain, and exhaustion, relatives of patients admitted to ...

Luzerne County Council is set to vote Monday on three proposed opioid settlement fund earmarks totaling $700,760.

Through devastating droughts and flooding rains, raging bushfires, and – most recently – a lingering algal bloom, South ...

Pediatric health care partnerships, food aid and a new hotel in Branson are among other business news items this week.

On Wednesday November 12, survivors of abuse in State and Faith-based care are gathering at the Ellen Melville Centre in Freyberg Place, Auckland City for The National Day of Remembrance, one year on ...