Polson, Montana — When someone accused of a crime in this small northwestern Montana town needs mental health care, chances are they'll be locked in a basement jail cell the size of a walk-in ...

They can, and should, find solace in the mental institution. Abuse and corruption warranted calls for their shutdown in the first place, but it is “indefensible” to claim that they cannot be ...

Donald Trump has promised a law-and-order approach to policy of all kinds — including the question of how to help people struggling with mental illness, substance use disorder and homelessness.

All three girls were 12. Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution, and earlier this month filed her third petition to be released. On Friday, a Wisconsin judge ordered her doctors ...

(WSMV) - Rep. Shaundelle Brooks (D-Hermitage) introduced House Bill 0947, also known as “Akilah’s Law,” to prevent a previous patient of a mental institution from obtaining a firearm.

The Wisconsin resident, now 22 years old, was sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted murder for the 2014 attack she carried out with friend Anissa ...

A closet-sized isolation cell in the Lake County jail has become a place of last resort as patients in mental health crisis wait for beds at the state-run mental hospital.

Polson, Montana — When someone accused of a crime in this small northwestern Montana town needs mental health care, chances are they'll be locked in a basement jail cell the size of a walk-in ...