An 11-year-old girl was restrained, injected with anti-psychotic drugs, and placed on a mental health ward after New Zealand police mistook her for a missing woman, a report found Wednesday.

“The majority of counties don't do most of the long-term commitments,” said Kawamura, who helps oversee cases involving ...

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal shooting at a teen house party near Tacoma that ...

Jamie Shandro has experienced the mental health care system both as an emergency physician and as the support person to a ...

A historic building on Marian Universitys campus that once housed a psychiatric hospital will be repurposed for a ...

Involuntary commitment of severely mentally ill people should be a last resort. Let’s build more first resort solutions.

Half a century after the state tightened the criteria for involuntary commitment, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make it easier to hospitalize mentally ill people against their will.

Opponents say the proposal would eliminate protections and place kids at further risk. It also would modify child restraint ...

Following Trump's order, a lawsuit was filed by seven families around the country with transgender and nonbinary children, ...

A 69-year-old man slowly suffocated to death in a rural Colorado jail after his ribs were broken in an altercation with a ...

Hawaiʻi has agreed to open its prisons and jails for inspection by two national experts who will assess the state’s troubled ...

Newtown High School senior Audrey Srebotnik is excited to have her very own exhibit on display at C.H. Booth Library for the ...