Making it easier for former prisoners to find work and mental health care should improve public safety by making people more ...

Stein touted efforts to help people leaving prison find jobs, housing and healthcare. But he said more work is needed on ...

Ryan Camacho, who was charged with stealing pillows, last year had a hearing in early December about whether he should be ...

The maniac who bludgeoned his elderly mom to death in Chinatown just before Christmas – possibly with a skateboard – had been ...

Ravenscroft teacher Zoe Welsh. Camacho has a 20-year criminal history in Durham and Wake counties. He also has a history of ...

Stacy Fuller struggled to get access to mental health treatment while incarcerated. “It was way overcrowded, the conditions were bad, the anger was building and the depression,” she remembered. “I ...

The Secure Psychiatric Unit sits on the grounds of the New Hampshire State Prison complex in Concord. It houses people with serious mental illness, but it isn't licensed as a medical facility. Since ...

An estimated two in five people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Most receive no treatment for their mental health issues ...

William DeFoor, 26, is charged in Hamilton County Municipal Court with criminal damaging, obstructing official business, ...

Efforts are underway to improve mental health care in Minnesota's jails, with counties and advocacy groups exploring new ...

Eric Kania, MD, who has been a psychiatrist at Baumettes Prison in Marseille, France, for 25 years, has witnessed an increasing proportion of inmates being treated for psychiatric disorders. In an ...