'Kings Park': Old Mental Asylums Shed Light on Newtown Crisis Condemned as evil, mental hospitals closed, leading to fragmented system.

Owners agree that it is likely that the bankrupt 91-year-old institution, whose leafy, 20-acre campus once offered refuge to ailing members of wealthy families, military generals and the children ...

Like local jails nationwide, Montana's small holding facilities have become institutions of last resort as patients in mental health crisis wait for beds at a mental hospital.

At a recent rally, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy stood on an Ohio gubernatorial platform that includes reopening mental institutions. Ramaswamy has said as much before, arguing as he campaigned for ...

Thank you for the editorial “Open up records from state mental institutions” (Opinion, Aug. 29) on the current proposals ...

Louisiana has shuttered most of its state-run mental institutions. The patchwork system that emerged leaves glaring gaps, experts say, exacerbating problems with crime and homelessness.

The institutionalization of people with disabilities in Massachusetts is one of our state’s more shameful episodes. Yet the records needed to document that time have generally been closed to both ...