Condemned as evil, mental hospitals closed, leading to fragmented system. Dec. 20, 2012— -- It took filmmaker Lucy Winer several decades to come to terms with having been locked up in a mental ...

Polson, Montana — When someone accused of a crime in this small northwestern Montana town needs mental health care, chances are they'll be locked in a basement jail cell the size of a walk-in closet.

President has long claimed without evidence that Venezuela has been emptying its ‘insane asylums’ and sending the inmates to ...

Improving Michigan's mental health care system means more than adding hospital beds ― but that's important, too.

The father of Hannah Aitken, who had been sent to six different mental health hospitals in four years, speaks to Sky News ...

President Trump wants far more homeless people forced into mandatory "long-term addiction" for mental health treatment. Critics say forcing Americans off the streets into institutions would be risky ...

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul deserves kudos for putting the brakes on New York’s decades-long experiment with deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill: She is adding beds to the state’s psychiatric hospitals.