mental illness

Under Florida law, people must be mentally competent before they stand trial. Now some state lawmakers are working on reforms for defendants who are…

Society often stigmatizes mental illness as a crime rather than an illness. In Tallahassee experts say new solutions are needed, including more access to…

Since April, 20 children who had already been on the Department of Children and Family’s radar, died from child abuse or neglect. It’s a number state…

A disability-rights organization has filed a federal lawsuit alleging Florida improperly "warehouses" people with mental illnesses in its psychiatric…

The American Bar Association has filed a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reexamine the case of a Florida death row inmate scheduled to be executed…

Producing art has become an accepted therapy for combating mental illness. Florida State University Art Therapy Graduate Students Samantha Maederer and…

A new study concludes, Florida taxpayers will be footing the bill for mentally ill patients after the Legislature rejected Medicaid expansion under the…

The national gun-control debate is echoing in the committee rooms of the Florida Legislature this week. Since Wednesday, three bills relating to firearms…

A Florida man who was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday is being given the chance to prove his insanity. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an…

At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Florida is scheduled to execute a convicted murderer, after an appeals court vacated his execution stay on Monday. But, the man’s…