Within three years, brick by inexpensive brick, the State Lunatic Asylum in Worcester was built on land that is now home to ...

After more than a decade of planning, Santa Clara County is preparing to open this spring a facility that health advocates ...

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more ...

Part of the changing landscape of behavioral health in Cuyahoga County in the new year is a new crisis center in Cleveland's ...

Tyeesha Ferguson, mother of Quincy Jackson III, in Springfield, Ohio, in May 2025. Ferguson has been advocating for her son to receive mental health treatment for most of his adult life. He has been ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. "That's what I'm trying to avoid," said Ferguson, who still calls Quincy Jackson III her baby. She remembers a ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply. The shift has all but... How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals ...

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals. Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old ...

JWoww talks directing her horror film 'DEVON' at Pennhurst Asylum. She shares her journey from reality tv to directing. Arkansas to become first state to cut ties with PBS: 'Not feasible' Attacker who ...

New York City's public hospital system is dispatching new mental health outreach teams to help patients avoid cycling back into emergency rooms and psychiatric wards — a move aimed at addressing a ...