Disability Rights NC (DRNC) published a damning report this week examining North Carolina’s involuntary commitment process.

Disability Rights NC spent a year investigating the state’s overuse of the legal procedure, which leaves patients locked up ...

Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are finalizing May 7. The changes to New York's involuntary commitment law will make it easier for authorities to take people with mental illness to hospitals ...

Involuntary commitment standards – the rules by which severely mentally ill people can be forced into psychiatric care against their will – will be expanded and loosened under an Albany budget ...

More than anyone, Mayor Eric Adams deserves credit for the changes to state commitment law, which authorize hospitals to provide involuntary treatment for ... His vision took concrete form in the ...

Legislative leaders have agreed to a state budget framework that loosens the legal standard for involuntary commitment of the mentally ill — a major victory for Gov. Kathy Hochul and a sign that ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul appears to have secured many of the expansions to involuntary commitment that she pushed for in the state budget. On Monday, the governor announced a preliminary agreement with ...

Utah Guard Mike Sharavjamts has announced his commitment to South Carolina. The South Carolina Gamecocks have been active in the transfer portal following the conclusion of the college basketball ...

Utah football landed its second commitment of the 2026 class on Monday, as Clear Falls High (Texas) edge rusher Preston Pitts announced on social media that he's set to join the Utes next season.

A Winston-Salem man fell Thursday as he was climbing down from his home's roof as police tried to serve him involuntary commitment papers, authorities said. The incident started shortly before 9: ...