Community leaders and local agencies in Columbus are working to address the deep connections between homelessness, ...

Johnny Jaquess has accepted the fact that he runs the largest mental health care provider in Collin County. He’d rather not, but without significant reform on mental health care from the state ...

County, state and federal prisons are very good at keeping inmates secure while incarcerated. At the same time, many locations struggle with the “corrective” part of corrections because facilities are ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County officials say the community needs to have a better way for helping people in the legal system with mental health issues. For now, most of those people are being served by ...

The legal agreement with the DOJ mandates jail upgrades, but leaves the deadlines to the implementation schedule.

Behind bars I watched men beg for help and get turned away because they lacked a formal diagnosis before incarceration.

Strategic hiring and expanded support services are key as Wayne County gets ready to open its renovated jail in 2026.

Though commissioners recognized the county jail's improvements and efforts to reduce the total inmate population, its ...

Tonantzyn Beltran was in the midst of a severe mental health episode when she fatally stabbed her mother in January 2024, her ...

At the end of last year, 30 defendants from New Orleans were awaiting transfer to the hospital. By mid-October, 33 remained caught in the backlog, confined in a jail that a federal judge has ruled ...