Content warning: This story includes detailed descriptions of psychiatric hospitalization, involuntary confinement and allegations of medical neglect. Tina Blackburn woke up in her rental car outside ...

n April 13, 2024, a woman we’ll call Rachel stepped out of her home in Northeast DC following a heated argument with her soon-to-be-ex-husband. A brisk walk through the neighborhood, she thought, ...

Family photos and hospital records of Quincy Jackson III, who has been in and out of hospitals and jails, including three state-run psychiatric facilities, for about a decade.Meg Vogel for The ...

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 ...

Many medical facilities across the U.S. use hoods on psychiatric patients to block them from spitting. Experts say the ...