On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to eliminate endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks on the streets of our cities by shifting ...

In the 1990s, the nation’s last remaining mental asylums shuttered their doors, bringing an end to centuries of forced institutionalization of the cognitively disabled and mentally ill. Repressive, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration is winding back the clock to a time when freedom was bound by chains of fear. The president signed an ...

A state work group studying how Oregon civilly commits people experiencing serious mental illness gave 51 recommendations to lawmakers to consider for the 2025 legislative session. The recommendations ...

An opioid addiction epidemic is killing more than 90 Americans each day. In Massachusetts, civil commitment has been used extensively to address this epidemic. Utah has passed a commitment law for ...

SALEM, Ore. — A workgroup of Oregon's top judicial, health, legislative and community leaders is recommending dozens of changes to the state's mental health and civil commitment laws, following an ...

MANKATO — A man with a history of knife threats or assaults faces additional charges in Mankato ahead of a Wednesday civil commitment hearing. Ricky Lee Mays, 50, of Mankato, was charged with two ...

The Trump administration is winding back the clock to a time when freedom was bound by chains of fear. The president signed an executive order that encourages states and municipalities to round up ...