Mr Whitfield said a new ethos of "moral treatment" did not mean a move to modern standards. He said: "Looking back, it seems very dark to us because of the kind of treatments that were used back then.

Ex-mental health commissioner King Davis (left) leads the Friends of Central State group. Dr. Ronald Forbes, the hospital’s first Black medical director, serves as vice chairman.

Far-right leader Geert Wilders has quit the Dutch government, plunging the country into political uncertainty. Wilders, whose Freedom party (PVV) was the biggest in the four-party coalition after ...

He said most asylum requests exaggerate conditions in South and Central America in order to gain status in the U.S. Mattingly, the EOIR spokeswoman, defended O'Brien's qualifications and said all ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating violence across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, warning of catastrophic consequences for ...