At a recent rally, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy stood on an Ohio gubernatorial platform that includes reopening mental institutions. Ramaswamy has said as much before, arguing as he campaigned for ...

President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness". In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the ...

How does Donald Trump want to solve the epidemic of gun violence? By building more mental health institutions. The president reiterated his suggestion on Thursday ahead of his first campaign rally ...

Melissa Keele poses for a portrait on April 7, at her home in Grand Junction, Colo. Melissa's son, Jaden Keele, 23, not pictured, has been dealing with severe mental illness for years. In 2023, he hit ...

For years, Massachusetts residents with mental health crises grappled with a perennial problem: They would go to the emergency department and wait. Typically, a patient would get an emergency ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply. The shift has all but... How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals ...

As a legislative committee grapples with how to keep people with severe mental illness out of jails and hospitals, advocates say some pieces are there, but an effective community-based system eludes ...

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