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

Attorneys had asked a judge to fine the department $10,000 every day it doesn't have a plan to speed up wait times for ...

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 ...

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Understanding that people don’t have a choice in mental illness and addiction is the first step in reducing stigma and ...

In Miami-Dade County, untreated mental illnesses and substance use disorders aggravate our criminal justice system, exhibiting a substantial inadequacy in community mental health services. Such ...

Initiative in Atlanta is diverting individuals in crisis away from incarceration and towards community support systems, with ...

Exclusive: Removing courts’ power would help vulnerable adults and children and ‘free up jail spaces’, experts say, in wake ...

Dame Rachel de Souza has called for a new youth justice system "based primarily upon a rehabilitative model of care” ...

Native children are also more likely to be returned to custody if they slip up, rather than being given an opportunity to ...

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 ...

When Jeffery Swan took office as a Yakima County Superior Court judge in 2021, he set his sights on establishing a veterans ...