We have been fighting for decades to keep this sadistic predator behind bar,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer ...

A Southern California child molester’s request to be released from a state mental hospital and back into the community was ...

Senate Bill 43 expands who can be placed on involuntary psychiatric holds, but some families are still waiting to see its ...

SHE ENDED UP IN THIS REALLY VICIOUS CYCLE OF REPEATED HOSPITALIZATIONS AND AN INVESTIGATION THAT ALSO REVEALS SHORTCOMINGS IN CALIFORNIA’S 21 FOR PROFIT PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS. WE STARTED ...

After California’s landmark 1999 minimum staffing law, the health department required psychiatric units inside general hospitals to maintain at least one nurse, or licensed psychiatric ...

After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for mental health care in California prisons.

After two hung juries, a third jury affirmed the status in 2006, and Landau was put back in custody and committed to a state mental-health hospital indefinitely. “We have been fighting for ...