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Mom’s Last Gun

My mother has severe mental illness. Our family has spent decades trying to keep her from using firearms to hurt herself and others.

Life Inside • 03.06.2026

Who’s in Ohio’s Psychiatric Hospitals, How Did They Get There and When Do They Get Out?

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more patients.

Cleveland • 01.07.2026

Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons

A steep rise in criminally charged people with severe mental illnesses has all but halted patients’ ability to get care in Ohio’s state psychiatric hospitals.

Cleveland • 12.22.2025

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