The Allegheny County Jail is the only jail in Pennsylvania in which officers cannot use leg restraints to secure individuals from jail on a visit to the hospital because of a 2022 referendum. Sheriffs ...

Patients at Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown have a long list of complaints about their living quarters: unhygienic ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

The “Code white” alert blares through the hospital public address system. Instantly, the atmosphere grows tense as staff responds to the advisory — a patient or visitor has become ...

Phoenixville Hospital was not cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for any safety violations between August 2024 ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...