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 ...

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 ...

After being spared the gallows because of his mental state, Amos Green Byrd’s life ended in Missouri’s notorious state penitentiary — his story revealing early justice, mental health and local history ...

The man accused of burning Portland Councilor Candace Avalos’ home cycled through Oregon’s mental health and criminal systems for years without the right treatment.

A Menlo Park man who allegedly carved the letter “R” into several downtown Redwood City business windows, causing more than $60,000 in damage, has been declared incompetent to stand trial and ...

Governor Josh Stein begins construction for a new health campus in Garner, NC, aimed at enhancing mental health services.

Some of the defendants were accused of murder and sexual assault, according to the DA, who warned they all could be released ...

The state Healthcare Department said the funding would only ease the pain of other drastic cuts contained in the law.

These case studies demonstrate how integrated models are taking shape and what hospital leaders in children’s hospitals, can learn from them.

Governor Josh Stein celebrates the groundbreaking of WakeMed's Whole Health Campus, a new mental health facility in Garner, NC.

HealthPartners made its third request in a decade to expand the trauma center, even as other hospitals contract.

At the end of last year, 30 defendants from New Orleans were awaiting transfer to the hospital. By mid-October, 33 remained caught in the backlog, confined in a jail that a federal judge has ruled ...