SALEM, Ore. -- Local history buffs wants the Oregon State Hospital campus in Salem placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It wouldn't stop hospital structures from being torn down to make ...

Back in the 1950s, America locked up too many people in psychiatric hospitals with shocking and deplorable conditions. We tried to correct for that, with an eye toward providing services in the ...

A few hours north of Seattle, Washington, there's a kind of ghost town dotted with decaying barns and milking sheds, an old cemetery, and once-stately buildings that housed thousands. It was never an ...

The number of incarcerated individuals in the United States with psychological or psychiatric disorders has been steadily increasing since the mid-1950s, with the upsurge stemming specifically from ...