Decades ago, South Carolina shifted patients from psychiatric hospitals to community treatment. The move has done little to improve their fate as lawmakers shortchanged them on resources. And jails ...

South Carolina is hardly alone in struggling to care for the mentally ill inmates filling its jails. But other states have made greater strides in devising potential fixes.

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Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he was arrested for stealing cigarettes and some fruit from a gas ...

Pima County Superior Court Judge Richard Fields ruled Monday that murder suspect Pamela Phillips cannot be forcibly medicated unless or until a hearing is held on the matter. Last month, Fields ruled ...

Are you carrying anger that has started costing you your relationships, your job, your sense of direction? Has depression settled in so quietly that the world just feels dark, and there is no one you ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - Two children, ages 9 and 11, who are charged in connection with the brutal assault of a 5-year-old girl last year must undergo competency restoration before they can ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — An Eden man accused of killing two Concho County deputies in May 2021 has once again been scheduled for a jury trial to determine his competency after ...