Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more ...

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals. Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old ...

Tyeesha Ferguson, mother of Quincy Jackson III, in Springfield, Ohio, in May 2025. Ferguson has been advocating for her son to receive mental health treatment for most of his adult life. He has been ...

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Mental hospitals have played a role of paramount importance in the history of American psychiatry, dating back to the mid-18th century when the Quakers made the first organized attempt to care for the ...

California health officials imposed new sanctions and fines related to the Chronicle's reporting, while setting new minimum staffing requirements for psychiatric hospitals in the state.

Family photos and hospital records of Quincy Jackson III, gathered by his mother, Tyeesha Ferguson. The mental health system makes it "easier to criminalize somebody than to get them help," she says. ...

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. "That's what I'm trying to avoid," said Ferguson, who still calls Quincy Jackson III her baby. She remembers a ...

The share of people with severe mental illness in state psychiatric hospitals accused of serious crimes has risen steeply. The shift has all but... How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals ...