Introduction Over 100 000 service users are admitted to acute mental health wards annually, many involuntarily. Wards are under incredible pressure due to high bed occupancy rates and staff shortages.

But efforts to replace the old facility — a cramped, aging building from the 1970s that was planned by an architect who designed prisons — appear to have hit a roadblock. An architectural firm hired ...

A task force concluded the facility was in desperate need of replacement. Lamont set aside $50M, but a recommended design ...

For pregnant women who are spending time in prison, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains specialty programs and ...

The man was arrested for public intoxication and was in the jail for less than two hours before he went into cardiac arrest.

Schools in the Pennsylvania region have been restraining students with disabilities at rates the Department of Education ...

Tasha Grant told a deputy and hospital staff 23 times that she could not breathe. Instead of an evaluation, she got handcuffs and skepticism.

Tasha Grant said the words until she could speak them no more. “I can’t breathe,” she repeated 23 times to MetroHealth Medical Center staff, three hospital police officers and the sheriff’s deputy ...

An inmate receiving treatment at a Tucson hospital was shot and killed by a corrections officer. The shooting occurred after a fight broke out in the hospital room. No one else was injured during the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A double amputee died at MetroHealth Medical Center in May after being restrained by officers who ignored her 23 pleas of “I can’t breathe,” according to attorneys representing Tasha ...

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is pleased to share that Jordan S. Orange, MD, PhD rejoined CHOP in September as Pediatrician-in-Chief and Chair ...