The expanded New York law would send people suffering from the chronic condition of mental illness to facilities designed ...

Timberline Knolls, a mental health center owned by Acadia Healthcare, skimped on staff. Then came a series of tragedies.

Supporter of state law allowing for involuntary commitment of mentally ill people misrepresents study critical of its ...

With psychiatric beds scarce, attorneys are filing emergency court orders to move mentally unfit defendants out of Rikers ...

When someone is forced into treatment, it strips them of their autonomy, say critics of Kendra's Law in New York.

Anthem Inc. reached a class-wide settlement agreement with patients challenging its guidelines for covering residential ...

Mental health advocates and civil rights groups—including the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the Mental Health Association in New York State ...

Expanding mental health courts would offer all New Yorkers alternatives ... guide people through the mental health care system in New York, and being able to tag in their loved ones could lower ...

One proven approach is expanding Kendra’s Law, a state program that allows courts to mandate outpatient ... as at least one third of those in New York do—everyone is less safe. Mayor Eric Adams and ...