Indy father pleads guilty but mentally ill in court for murdering his 10-year-old son
FOX 59 Indianapolis· 5 days agoINDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man went to court and pleaded guilty but mentally ill after murdering...
Pa. prison confines mentally ill people in solitary, a ‘never-ending cycle’: lawsuit
The Patriot-News· 1 day agoAngel Maldonado has spent 12 years of his life in a cell alone. Three of those years were spent...
Legislators push for mental health agency to take over Bridgewater State Hospital
GBH News· 1 day agoCritics who claim Bridgewater State Hospital is grievously failing the mentally ill men held there...
Brooklyn man who tried to build bomb in homeless shelter expected to get 25 months
New York Daily News· 1 day agoA mentally ill homeless man who tried to build a bomb in a Brooklyn men’s shelter is expected to get...
Michigan Supreme Court refuses to hear case of James and Jennifer Crumbley
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBut the prosecution, which conceded from the get-go that this was a difficult case, alleged the...
Orange, Riverside counties will test a new strategy to treat the severely mentally ill
Orange County Register· 4 days agoIt’s a philosophical faceoff between those who argue that folks should be free to chart their own...
Froma Harrop: Bring back locked mental facilities
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 10 hours agoIt was the Community Mental Health Act, signed by President John F. Kennedy on Halloween, Oct. 31, 1963. The plan was to replace giant state psychiatric...
Harrisburg police-car crash that killed teen was ‘perfect storm of worst-case scenarios’: neighbor
The Patriot-News· 1 day agoCourtney was sleeping in her home on the 1900 block of Holly Street early Tuesday when her startled...
US judge blocks execution of mentally ill Texas man
AFP via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA US District Court has blocked the execution of a schizophrenic man who had been sentenced to die in Texas for a double murder."The court finds that...
Co-op stabbing: Prince gives nurse Queen's bravery medal after attack
BBC News· 13 hours agoA nurse who was stabbed while intervening in a knife attack in a supermarket has received a medal...