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

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 ...

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 ...

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