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 ...

The Resource Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Sarah Pillittieri as its clinical services manager. In her new role, ...

Polk State School & Hospital, later renamed Polk Center, is shown in this historical photo. Polk Center, in Venango County, was a state-run institution for people with disabilities that closed earlier ...