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People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday killings downtown show big gaps in care for severely mentally ill, violent ...
Sebastian Zepata Callil, the illegal immigrant accused of torching a woman to death on a Brooklyn subway train was a heavy drinker who chain-smoked K2. Public fury over dangerous mentally ill people ...
America’s ongoing marijuana-legalization experiment will have many consequences. That goes especially for the seriously mentally ill, a sliver of the adult population but overrepresented among the ...
On Wednesday, New York legislators considered mental-health-policy proposals in the state executive budget. Governor Kathy Hochul touted these reforms in last month’s State of the State address, ...
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed allowing police to take into custody people suspected of being mentally ill without requiring evidence of "imminent risk or recent overt acts" in response to ...
Currently, a good deal of treatment is being provided for mentally ill inmates within the prison system, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the US Department of Justice. [1] A ...
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