Hochul plan to increase commitments of mentally ill raises specters of the past
The goal is to get the more of the mentally ill into psychiatric hospitals and outpatient care. However, some fear it is a ...
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Wash. bill seeks cap for sending people to state psychiatric hospitals
People sat in overwhelmed county jails for months waiting for a spot at the state hospital for these short-term services. The ...
City Journal4d
Hochul’s Humane Move to Put the Seriously Mentally Ill in Hospitals
One key proposal is to change the state’s legal standards for involuntarily hospitalizing ... New York’s mental-hygiene law currently lets hospitals retain mentally ill individuals whom clinicians ...
The Gazette9d
Outspoken activist writes scathing rebuke of mental health system | A LOOK BACK
The turn from state mental hospitals to community driven voluntary services was ... were federal laws passed in the 1970s to protect the civil rights of the mentally ill, making it impossible in 1990 ...
Yakima Herald-Republic7d
WA bill seeks cap for sending people to state psychiatric hospitals
When a person is charged with a crime but found too mentally ill to participate in their ... jails for months waiting for a spot at the state hospital for these short-term services.