North Carolina leaders last year approved new rules for handling criminal suspects who may need psychiatric care — prompting ...

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in ...

President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness". In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the ...

Though it’s often said that America “closed the asylums” in the twentieth century, every state still operates at least one public mental institution. These facilities, called state hospitals, are the ...

At a recent rally, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy stood on an Ohio gubernatorial platform that includes reopening mental institutions. Ramaswamy has said as much before, arguing as he campaigned for ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — A Fourth Circuit panel heard from a West Virginia man Thursday who argues a law preventing those who have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution from owning a gun ...

There’s a stream that cuts across the grounds of Central Louisiana State Hospital, traversing its rolling hills dotted with age-old oak trees. To the right of its entrance, bleachers and a fence, ...