Half a century after the state tightened the criteria for involuntary commitment, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make it easier to hospitalize mentally ill people against their will.

RACINE, WI – For 100 years, a three-story neo-gothic asylum called the Taylor Orphan Asylum was a home for Racine’s orphans.

A historic building on Marian Universitys campus that once housed a psychiatric hospital will be repurposed for a ...

The U.N. considers solitary confinement torture. Yet it remains widespread in U.S. prisons and jails, where 122,000 people ...