MENTAL HEALTH AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE ARE RELATED ISSUES THAT AFFECT PEOPLE AND SYSTEMS ALL AROUND NEBRASKA. WE’RE TOLD MORE THAN HALF OF THOSE INCARCERATED SUFFER FROM A MENTAL ILLNESS, AND THAT’S THE ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Some stories stick with you. They make an indentation. That’s how it has felt to report on the people who deal with mental incompetency, the justice system and the fallout.

The study found the mentally ill are swept up by low-level criminal offenses and kept in state hospitals too long, confirming ...

Explore new solutions to mental health and criminal justice. An estimated 40% of people in jails and prisons have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder. Often these conditions go untreated, ...

The El Paso County prison diversion program aims to keep people with mental illness from returning to the criminal justice ...

In South Durham, the NCDHHS celebrated Thursday the start of a new collaboration with Durham-based Jubilee Home, which ...

Thousands of people arrested each year in Texas are dealing with mental health issues. Some conditions can be treated with ...

CHARLOTTE — Charlotte leaders and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department want to close mental health gaps in the criminal justice system. During a committee meeting on Monday, advocates and ...

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 ...

During my term in the Montana Legislature, I served on the Judiciary and Human Services Committees, where we often heard testimony about the Forensic Mental Health Facility in Galen. I was alarmed to ...

Raleigh introduces FACT teams to support individuals with mental health issues in the criminal justice system.

Jim DeFede joined CBS4 News in January 2006 and serves as an investigative reporter for the station, as well as host of its Sunday morning public affairs program "Facing South Florida." Nearly four ...