Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 30—Every year, hundreds of people across New York who have been accused of crimes are sent to state-run mental hospitals to ...

Torrance State Hospital is one of only two hospitals in Pennsylvania that provide "competency restoration," treatment for people who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial. Pennsylvania’s ...

Even after eight years of litigation, bills passed by the Colorado Legislature, and countless frustrated and grieving family members, hundreds of people with severe mental illnesses still sit in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 28—Shellie Whitmore has yet to be in a courtroom with the man accused of stabbing her father to death on a walking path in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A judge has ordered the Purdue University student charged with the murder of his roommate in October to be committed to a mental health institution in an effort to restore his ...

After a magistrate found this week that a mother under indictment in Tarrant County for capital murder in the killing of her 6-year-old son is incompetent to stand trial, the task turns to trying to ...

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Torrance State Hospital is one of only two hospitals in Pennsylvania that provide ‘competency restoration,’ treatment for people who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial. Spotlight PA is an ...