The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, District Court and mental health providers are launching a new local process for evaluating defendants’ mental competency and offering outpatient treatment for ...

A Garfield County judge ruled Wednesday that Craig Allen Robbins is not competent to stand trial, ordering him into ...

Missouri Mental Health Director Valerie Huhn told lawmakers the department and courts need options to get defendants ...

State Sen. Nathan Manning (R-North Ridgeville) and state Sen. Thomas Patton (R-Strongsville) recently gave sponsor testimony on Senate Bill 295, legislation that would extend the timeline for ...

Jun. 30—Every year, hundreds of people across New York who have been accused of crimes are sent to state-run mental hospitals to be treated for severe disabilities or mental illnesses that prevent ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The suspect accused of killing Cleveland Police Officer Jamieson Ritter and his own grandmother now has a competency restoration deadline. Delawnte Hardy, 26, was ordered to ...

One of the worst parts of an Alamosa County Sheriff deputy’s job is dealing with jail inmates who suffer mental illness as they await agonizingly long times for competency hearings on the way to trial ...

Should individuals with persistent and serious mental illness, who commit minor crimes, be treated as criminals in our court system, or can we treat their mental illness in a more humane way and offer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Keeping vulnerable people from sitting in a cell is how Hays County leaders bill the Jail-Based ...