The Hays County Commissioners’ Court passed the final step for the Jail-Based Competency Restoration Program (JBCR), designed ...

Court consultants say Oklahoma's mental health agency has made a "material violation" of a consent decree about competency restoration.

It's a situation Pamela Hawkins said she hopes other parents of a child with mental health issues won't have to endure.

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 ...

Work crews are already on site at the Montgomery County Mental Health Treatment Facility in Conroe, where a 100-bed addition ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Keeping vulnerable people from sitting in a cell is how Hays County leaders bill the Jail-Based ...

ST. LOUIS — As a young girl growing up in Missouri, Megan Jolly loved to read, dance and dress up. For her 20th birthday, she and her mother wore formal gowns to dinner on a cruise ship to Cozumel, ...