In jail instead of a hospital; the struggle to get mental health treatment in Texas

Thousands of people arrested each year in Texas are dealing with mental health issues. Some conditions can be treated with ...

Mentally ill people are stuck in jail because they can't get treatment. Here's what's to know

Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he ...

Alabama promised to improve psychiatric care for men charged with crimes. They still wait years

In Alabama, that means people charged with less serious crimes, like Clark, “spend more time waiting for a bed than if they ...
The Texas Tribune

Amarillo breaks ground on psychiatric hospital, part of the state’s $1.5B investment in mental health

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Alaska Dispatch News

The short life and sudden death of one of Alaska’s longest-institutionalized psychiatric patients

Duop Tharjiath, the son of Sudanese refugees, was found dead in his room at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute in late March. Tharjiath, 29 when he died, spent more than five years as a patient at the ...

Hospital trust fined £500k over death of patient

A hospital trust has been fined more than £500,000 and a ward manager given a six-month suspended sentence over the death of ...