President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness". In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. President Donald Trump says he is open to the ...

Trump’s cuts to Medicaid, housing assistance and mental health programs will undermine his goal of increasing involuntary commitment.

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic ...

Asylums have long captivated historians and urban explorers, serving as haunting reminders of the problematic origins of mental health care. Much like cemeteries, these institutions were used to ...

Editor’s Note: This is the final report in the KOIN 6 News series, “Breaking the Cycle: Oregon’s attempt at recovery” PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Dan Garris shared the trials and tribulations his daughter ...

The approach to treating people with mental illness has swung intensely — and controversially — over the decades from locking people up for years in “insane asylums” to shuttering hospitals and ...

Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital is a richly endowed chronicle of what was our most colorful, and possibly best, asylum, Massachusetts' McLean Hospital. Author ...

On March 23, 2010, Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as "The Affordable Care Act," or ACA. In 2009, in anticipation of it, Katherine Power, then ...