TAG / PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS

A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.

Amid deaths, lawsuits and federal probes, Acadia executives secured seven-figure bonuses.

Pontiac General lost federal funding after a damning record of abuse and neglect. Now it seeks accreditation while housing just four patients.

The NHS spent nearly $3 billion last year outsourcing psychiatric care to for-profit private hospitals like Priory—where patients are dying from abuse, neglect and chemical restraint.

Psychiatric staff in the UK restrained, humiliated and assaulted vulnerable patients while colleagues turned a blind eye. A disturbing new study reveals just how deep the abuse goes.

Options Behavioral Health is facing lawsuits and investigations after reports of forced drugging, sexual abuse and illegal detainment of children. Yet officials have issued no fines and closed the case.

A San Francisco Chronicle investigation reveals systemic failures at Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare, where abuse, neglect and underreporting persist without consequence. 

A unit of Universal Health Services has been exposed for boosting profits as part of “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”

Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.

Forced drugging, restraint of patients, brutality, cruelty, mockery and abuse were recently dragged out into the open by a startling BBC documentary.