Jennifer Baez called on city and state leaders Tuesday to create a law that anyone accused of killing a minor cannot claim mental illness as a first line of defense.
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A portrait of Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton was dedicated at the Ohio Judicial Center, recognizing her influential legal ...
More than half of those incarcerated suffer from mental health illness. That's the driving force for Metro Community ...
CCHR testifies before hearing of Maryland law seeking to end potentially lethal restraint methods used in youth transports to ...
A legislative resolution that lays out a settlement between the mental health department and a group that sued the state is ...
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Studies show that only 25 percent of African Americans seek mental health treatment compared to 40 percent of white Americans ...
A consent decree drafted to improve mental health services in Oklahoma county jails has cleared its first legislative hurdle.