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For decades, millions in federal funding has been used exclusively to support police. Now some of the funding may instead go to mental health, diversion programs and other things. Members of Washington’s Congressional delegation released a letter saying the shift could prove "disastrous."
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University researchers found detention staff threw balls of pepper spray and used other means of force against detainees, including those with mental illness. They found such incidents occurred on average once a month.
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A federal judge has found Washington state in contempt and ordered it to pay more than $100 million for failing to provide timely psychiatric services to mentally ill people who must wait in jails for weeks.
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People experiencing mental health crises have been being killed by police in America. But how many is unknown. Federal law requires the Department of Justice to collect and publish data on that. But the law doesn’t require police departments to tell the DOJ how many people their officers killed, and many aren't doing so.
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Reports of elder abuse are on the rise in King County, and they're not expected to go down anytime soon as more residents age into their golden years. The…
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At the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, inmates with mental illness are locked down in their cells for up to 16 hours a day, even if they...
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On a recent Wednesday morning, Denise Vermillion stood outside the Thurston County Courthouse and expressed the frustration that had been building...
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Four states have no insanity defense. Advocates say that means seriously ill people can be executed where in other states they wouldn't be convicted at all, and it makes it harder to get treatment.
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Jurors often are reluctant to acquit someone who committed a crime while mentally ill, or to find that person guilty. So they take a third option: guilty but mentally ill. It's far from perfect.
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Families struggle to find a safe, therapeutic place for loved ones with serious mental disorders. In Geel, Belgium, residents have brought mentally ill strangers into their homes for centuries.