The number of incarcerated individuals in the United States’ jails and prisons with psychiatric disorders has been steadily increasing since the mid-1950s, with the upsurge stemming mostly from the ...

One of the charming, if bizarre, discoveries I made living in New England was its constellation of splendid, thoroughly abandoned mental institutions. They occupied commanding heights in bucolic rural ...

Deinstitutionalization was supposed to be a way forward for America, getting people experiencing mental illness out of forced hospitalizations and back into communities. What partly led to this ...

A barrage of media coverage has surrounded the case of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was acting erratically and threatening other passengers on a New York subway, who succumbed to a chokehold by ...