Officials at Alaska Psychiatric Institute, the state’s sole psychiatric hospital, say they plan to double the facility’s capacity to treat felony-level criminal defendants deemed incompetent to stand ...

Should individuals with persistent and serious mental illness, who commit minor crimes, be treated as criminals in our court system, or can we treat their mental illness in a more humane way and offer ...

Community Support Advocates is launching an outpatient competency restoration program, a service the state currently doesn't have. The program aims to help mentally ill defendants charged with ...