It's a situation Pamela Hawkins said she hopes other parents of a child with mental health issues won't have to endure.

Keeping vulnerable people from sitting in a cell is how Hays County leaders bill the Jail-Based Competency Restoration (JBCR) ...

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, District Court and mental health providers are launching a new local process for evaluating defendants’ mental competency and offering outpatient treatment for ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A northeast Kansas county is launching a new effort to more quickly evaluate the mental competency of people charged with a crime. It’s believed the be the first such program of ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — People charged with crimes who have been deemed mentally incompetent sometimes wait months in jail for restoration services at the state hospital. The 1st Judicial District, ...

CLEVELAND — A new court filing is clarifying the timeline for competency restoration in the case of De’Lawnte Hardy. He's accused of killing his own grandmother, Beatrice Porter, and Cleveland police ...

"Instead of waiting nearly a year for treatment, we can provide those services right here, right now," the Hays County District Attorney's Office said.

ST. LOUIS — As a young girl growing up in Missouri, Megan Jolly loved to read, dance and dress up. For her 20th birthday, she and her mother wore formal gowns to dinner on a cruise ship to Cozumel, ...

Charges have been refiled against Benjamin Plank, accused of killing an Oklahoma County deputy, after a new law addresses ...