It would be a terrifying return to the policies of the 19th and early 20th centuries, when individuals could be committed to ...

The story of American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc—from President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present—federal and state governments dismantled ...

A normal candidate might try to counter those claims by staying on message and avoiding any mention of mental asylums. Trump is apparently uninterested in such a strategy, and has therefore ...

“The generation that tried to close down mental asylums and tried to develop treatment is now no more,” says Sirolli, as he shows me the small museum that houses artefacts of the former ...

state-run mental asylums and into communities, correctional facilities have become default mental health care institutions in Colorado and across the country. Yet, even as this hellish situation ...