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 ...
Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more ...
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 ...
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 ...
More than 90 psychiatric hospitals have violated EMTALA in the past 15 years, and most have not faced any consequences, ProPublica found. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act was enacted in ...
National inspectors uncover rampant abuse and chronic safety breakdowns across private psychiatric facilities while the NHS ...
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 ...