In the first five months of 2024, staff physically restrained patients an average of 150 times per month, or five times in a ...

Devonte Watson was held in Cleveland County jail for 600 days before he got a bed in a state psychiatric hospital. North Carolina Disability Rights sued North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human ...

ACLU, Disability Rights, and Children’s Rights have sued the state claiming it is denying Medicaid-eligible children access to care PROVIDENCE — A Rhode Island mother said she feels like she has been ...

Surveys show mental health challenges can affect anyone, regardless of background or circumstance, and they are becoming more ...

A Little Rock-based nonprofit organization responsible for advocating on behalf of Arkansans with disabilities has again ...

Lawyers at Disability Rights Oregon and the American Civil Liberties Union are suing Washington County and its emergency dispatch agency for their policy of sending police officers rather than health ...

Three state prisoners are claiming in a state lawsuit that the Massachusetts Parole Board has discriminated against them because of their mental health disabilities, and that the board's actions have ...

SUMTER, S.C. — After a woman was found unresponsive and ultimately died early Wednesday morning at the Sumter-Lee Detention Center, News19 is looking at how people dealing with mental health crises ...

Photo illustration. The Disability Rights Center of Kansas could lose nearly two-thirds of its guaranteed federal funding in 2026 if the Trump administration’s budget proposals are approved as written ...

Most people over 50 were already adults when the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in 1992 and transformed the ...

FARGO — Following several recent high-profile crimes in Fargo, questions sprang up about the mental state of the person alleged to be responsible and whether they were legally allowed to have firearms ...