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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump's new executive order to combat homelessness encourages local governments to revive civil commitment, a process to place people with mental health issues in treatment facilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

Appellant, a 67-year-old man, appealed the decision to continue his civil commitment to the Special Treatment Unit under the Sexually Violent Predator Act. In 1985, appellant raped and stabbed a woman ...

As the vision for a new, 1,300-bed homeless “campus” recently sited in northwest Salt Lake City begins to crystalize, a discussion in front of a panel of lawmakers this week showed that the state’s ...

Multnomah County deputies’ decision to pull security services from the Unity Center has forced the sensitive hearings to go virtual. Multnomah County deputies recently stopped providing security at ...

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 ...