The Hays County Commissioners’ Court passed the final step for the Jail-Based Competency Restoration Program (JBCR), designed ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Though not every defendant in a major murder case in recent years has raised the issue of their competency to stand trial, many have. In most cases in which a competency evaluation is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black individuals in the United States face substantial obstacles to receiving the best mental health care.

Forensic psychiatrists navigate the intersection of psychiatry and the law. Applying psychiatric expertise cultivated through five or more years of rigorous training, they evaluate the influence of ...

When a person is charged with a crime but found too mentally ill to participate in their defense, Washington state must offer them temporary treatment. The process, known as “competency restoration,” ...

I'm Dr. Alex Sahba, double board certified in general psychiatry and forensic psychiatry and trained at UCLA. I conduct legal / forensic / psychiatric evaluations for court, risk assessment (violence ...

The trial is on hold for the Linn County man accused of killing four people, after a judge ordered him to undergo a competency evaluation by the State psychiatrist for the next few weeks, KCRG reports ...