Illinois forces hundreds of children to remain locked up in psychiatric wards after they’ve been medically cleared for release, according to a federal class action, causing them immense mental harm and costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
Read moreDefending new restrictions on transgender military service, attorneys for the government told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that there is nothing discriminatory about recognizing that gender dysphoria has been linked to depression and other disorders.
Read morePeople with mental health issues and dementia who are released from Los Angeles County jails will be given medications and connections to organizations that can keep them from becoming homeless, according to an update of a settlement agreement reached Thursday.
Read moreCalifornia once again took heat for its embattled prison system after a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday order the state to comply with longstanding rules requiring immediate emergency care for mentally disabled inmates.
Read moreFor most Americans, the secret to happiness and purpose comes from family, according a pair of newly released surveys from the Pew Research Center.
Read moreThe United Kingdom’s vote to withdrawal from the European Union caused a spike in antidepressant prescriptions, a new study finds.
Read moreSuicide rates remain “sky-high” among California prisoners with mental illness, an attorney told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday, because the state refuses to adhere to its own timeframes for providing them with psychiatric care.
Read moreA mentally ill man imprisoned after stealing $1 and a hat claims in a civil rights lawsuit that Illinois prison officials tortured him by putting him in solitary confinement for two decades, where he self-mutilated himself, including slicing off his testicle and hanging it on his cell door.
Read moreThe fate of a man who murdered a police officer 33 years ago – but can no longer remember the crime nor understand why he received the death penalty – was weighed by justices of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Read moreAttorneys representing a proposed class of families separated under President Donald Trump’s now-abandoned zero tolerance immigration policy said Thursday that ongoing mental health care is needed to address the “systemic” harm they experienced while in detention.
Read moreFrench far-right leader Marine Le Pen is refusing to undergo a court-ordered psychiatric exam for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, comparing the demand to methods used in totalitarian regimes.
Read moreAffirming an order to pull a mentally disabled octogenarian off life support, an appeals court ruled Thursday that the patient’s prior capacity to make health care decisions had little bearing on the case.
Read moreThe European Union is introducing rules to tighten assessments of pilots’ mental health following the Germanwings crash in 2015.
Read moreIllinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a new law Monday that will allow guns to be taken away from people showing signs they may be a danger to themselves or others.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Catholic Health Initiatives, because an ERISA plan may not pay for medical and surgical patients’ stays at licensed skilled nursing facilities while denying the same benefits to mental health patients for their stays at residential treatment facilities.
Read moreA patient claims in court that a psychiatrist at San Ysidro Health sexually battered her while treating her, and that “eight victims have come forward with similar allegations” against him.
Read moreA divided Texas appeals court reaffirmed Wednesday its denial of an inmate’s petition to get off death row, finding he is not too intellectually disabled to be executed as suggested by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreA federal class action filed against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services claims the state has not fulfilled its obligation under the Medicaid Act to provide home and community-based mental health services to children and young adults.
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