Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – State lawmakers are considering a bill to make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental ...

(New York) – Benon Kabale, a Ugandan disability rights advocate, is the 2024 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Human Rights ...

An advocacy group for people with disabilities sued the Murphy Administration Tuesday for running the state’s public psychiatric hospitals like prisons, where patients have been sexually and ...

Devonte Watson was held in Cleveland County jail for 600 days before he got a bed in a state psychiatric hospital. North Carolina Disability Rights sued North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human ...

The U.S. stands at a dangerous crossroads in mental health policy. On one hand, research shows that voluntary, community-rooted care helps people with psychiatric disabilities lead healthier, fuller ...

Today, a jury in Woburn, Mass., heard the closing arguments of a trial in which Melanie G. Northrop, a social worker at Harvard’s Counseling and Mental Health Service, stands accused of causing the ...

Disability Rights Oregon on Tuesday asked a judge to find the state of Oregon in contempt of a court order, citing its failure to admit jailed criminal defendants to the state psychiatric hospital ...

Inmates with mental illness often wait months for care to give them a shot at being deemed capable to assist in their defense. Disability Rights North Carolina wants a judge to order the state’s ...

Structured, court-ordered treatment is the right course of action for some brain disorder patients. In such cases, ideology ...