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