2026

Hos­pital ordered to take action on seclu­sion

2026

Judge plans to appoint receiver to take control of West Suburban and Weiss hospitals

2026

State rejects call to shut mental hospital for children and teens

2026

Nurse accused of preying on Oregon psychiatric patients kept license, state paid $1M to settle lawsuits

2026

Psychiatric emergency units: 'serious failings' in several Paris-region hospitals

2026

A Crucial Moment for Persons with Disabilities: The Right to Community Inclusion vs. Institutionalization

2026

Lamont, governors urge Trump administration to protect disability rights

2026

JLARC renews call to close Virginia’s youth psychiatric hospital

2026

Trump Administration Wants To Strike Rules On Community Integration For People With Disabilities

2026

Moore Co. DSS settles federal lawsuit with family of children with disabilities

2026

Trump Administration Wants To Strike Rules On Community Integration For People With Disabilities

2026

He lost 10 years in a Georgia nursing home. It's becoming more common

2026

Proposed Kansas data center sits hundreds of yards from psychiatric hospital, raising safety concerns

2026

State asks court to take Oregon State Hospital out of contempt

2026

As Idaho’s nursing homes face ‘challenges,’ state’s largest operator draws fines

2026

DOJ Abandons Olmstead Defense as Texas v Kennedy Advances

2026

Lawmakers call for urgent change at CT psychiatric hospital for children, calling it a 'safety crisis'

2026

They grew up with disability rights. Now, they're fighting to keep them

2026

With Idaho’s history, everyone should pay attention to evolving language of institutionalization

2026

Spanberger administration revokes Virginia youth psych facility's license, calls system ‘broken'

2026

Rights for People With Disabilities Are Under Attack, But California Can Protect Them

2026

Before Abrupt Ouster, Oregon State Hospital’s Chief Flagged Staffing Problems, Union Says

2026

Senators reintroduce bill that would make HCBS a mandatory benefit, end wait lists

2026

Oregon State Hospital superintendent is gone after 1 month on the job

2026

Moore County pays NC family to settle wrongful institutionalization lawsuit

2026

As federal protections fade, disabled Americans fear a return to institutions

2026

A Texas-led federal lawsuit could affect disability rights. Here’s why advocates are concerned

2026

Children pulled from Virginia psychiatric facility amid state action after CBS 6 investigation

2026

Democrats probe DOJ finding that eases way for states to institutionalize mentally ill

2026

Justice Department Deems Major ADA Guidance ‘Not Enforceable’

2026

Georgia is building first state psychiatric hospital since landmark disability case

2026

A new lawsuit details bleak days before Oregon State Hospital patient’s death

2026

Oregon State Hospital admitted dead man, held another in filthy room, leaked investigation finds

2026

Alabama Settles Lawsuit Over Institutionalization of Foster Youth

2026

Trump's actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn

2026

Trump is pushing to institutionalize homeless people. That may include veterans

2026

New Justice Department memo questions decades of protections for people with disabilities

2026

DOJ memo stokes fear among disability advocates of a return to institutionalization

2026

States aren't required to provide community-based care for people with disabilities, new DOJ opinion claims

2026

Trump DOJ Outlines Dubious Path to Force People Into Psychiatric Institutions

2026

With Fewer Youth and Under Tight Scrutiny, Minnesota Psychiatric Facility Allowed to Stay Open

2026

Locked up and alone: Sharp rise in Oregon State Hospital’s seclusion of patients pushed state to worst-in-nation status

2026

Nursing home staffing declined in states that protected facilities from COVID-19 malpractice lawsuits

2026

How a legal challenge over gender dysphoria became a fight for disability rights

2026

Workers charged in patient's 2020 death at D.C. psychiatric hospital

2026

RFK Jr. Moves to Close Administration For Community Living

2026

Medicaid cuts put home- and community-based services at risk

2026

Allegations mount against D.C.’s only dedicated psychiatric hospital

2026

California mental health hospitals warn of cuts after state hands down staffing rule

2025

Decades of Records From Massachusetts’ Troubled State Institutions Are Now Publicly Available

2025

Maryland violates 10-day law as defendants with mental illness languish in jail for months

2025

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People

2025

Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes, federal judge rules

2025

We Found Widespread Abuse of Disabled Patients at an Illinois Facility. The DOJ Is Investigating

2025

Let Me Go: Excessive Restraint of Patients at College Hospital

2025

Colorado bill protecting disabled people from institutionalization advances

2025

Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People

2025

Mayor Eric Adams blasts critics of $650M plan to help NYC mentally ill, homeless

2025

Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block

2024

Florida Made It Easier to Involuntarily Commit People. A New Lawsuit Says It’s Violating the Law

2024

Georgians With Disabilities Are Still Being Institutionalized, Despite Federal Oversight

2024

After Institutions for People With Disabilities Close, Graves Are at Risk of Being Forgotten

2024

Black Bostonians are more likely to be sent for involuntary mental health institutionalization by clinicians

2024

Feds investigating "unnecessary institutionalization" in Michigan's state psychiatric hospitals

2024

Justice Department Launches Disability Rights Investigation into Unnecessary Institutionalization in Michigan’s State Psychiatric Hospitals

2024

Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are skeptical

2024

The ‘really messy system’ that limits where millions of disabled people can vote

2024

In Focus: Ending the institutionalization of children and keeping families together

2024

Brown can help end institutionalization in Rhode Island. Will it?

2024

Missouri is breaking federal law by housing mentally ill in nursing homes, DOJ finds

2024

Justice Department Finds State of Missouri Unnecessarily Institutionalizes Adults with Mental Health Disabilities in Skilled Nursing Facilities in Violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Improperly Relies on Guardianship

2024

Beyond Coercion and Institutionalization

2024

Access Above All

2024

Feds accuse Rhode Island of warehousing kids with mental health, developmental disabilities

2024

Justice Department Finds Nebraska Violates Federal Civil Rights Laws by Unnecessarily Institutionalizing People with Serious Mental Illness

2024

More Ohioans could be committed to a hospital against their will under proposed law

2024

16,000 people with disabilities are in state-operated institutions. This is how experts say health care should change

2024

Could the U.S. force treatment on mentally ill people (again)?

2024

No Place Like Home: People with Disabilities' Fight to Stay Out of Institutions

2024

6 reasons why damning report demands Bridgewater State Hospital close

2024

California wants to force people into mental health care. Advocates say it will backfire

2024

Their disabled loved ones languished in state institutions. Now, they want the records

2024

A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no

2024

In Crisis, She Went to an Illinois Facility. Two Years Later, She Still Isn’t Able to Leave.

2024

Mental hospitals warehoused the sick. Congress wants to let them try again.

2023

Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities

2023

Gavin Newsom signs law in ‘overhaul’ of mental health system. It changes decades of practice

2023

Patients with substance use disorders need care, not coercion

2023

Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence

2022

Eric Adams' Plan To Involuntarily Hospitalize Mentally Ill Homeless People Will Face Legal Challenges

2022

New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets

2021

Seniors and People with Disabilities Want to Live in Our Homes, Not Nursing Homes. Will Congress Let Us?

2017

“Prisons Without Bars” – Forced Institutionalization of People with Disabilities