Recipient rights officers are the people inside a psychiatric hospital who are there to protect patients’ rights by investigating abuse and neglect.

Calling the dangerous conditions in for-profit psychiatric hospitals an emergency, California’s top lawmaker on the state Senate Health Committee proposed legislation Thursday to quickly impose ...

Armed security guards will become a new presence at New Hampshire Hospital, the state’s psychiatric facility in Concord following a fatal shooting in November 2023, when a security guard ...

The push for a facility came to the forefront again after a man disarmed an officer and fatally shot himself in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Youngstown last week.

A 23-year-old MS-13 gang member who violently kidnapped and beat a 15-year-old inside Pilgrim Psychiatric Center was sentenced ...