Yahoo

Who’s in Ohio’s Psychiatric Hospitals, How Did They Get There and When Do They Get Out?

Family photos and hospital records of Quincy Jackson III, who has been in and out of hospitals and jails, including three state-run psychiatric facilities, for about a decade.Meg Vogel for The ...
The Marshall Project

Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals. Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old ...
Cleveland Scene

How Ohio’s Mental Hospitals Are More Like Prisons

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 ...
WDTN

Local hospitals and schools collaborate on mental health program

MORAINE, Ohio (WDTN) – Kettering Health, Premier Health, and Dayton Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with local colleges, held a launch ceremony to celebrate the start of a new collaborative ...
NPR

How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals into prisons

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 ...