Federal health funding cuts in New York have led to the closure of a Long Island mental health program and risk loss of $360 million for various health services. Public health defense against diseases ...

Budget negotiations include a policy proposal to expand the state’s power to force people into psychiatric care.

NY Governor Hochul announced the opening of 125 new psychiatric beds in state facilities since December, emphasizing enhanced ...

The largest expansion of state ... new beds are intended for people who have stabilized after a crisis and others who are deemed unfit to stand trial, part of Hochul’s broader $1 billion mental ...

Defendants who were found unfit to stand trial waited on Rikers an average of 79 days as of last fall, according to the ...

State Republicans made another push for measures they said would fight crime in New York. They demanded that involuntary ...

Daniel Prude's death, NY is debating involuntary commitment reforms amid a push to remove police from mental health emergency ...