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 ...
Cleveland Scene

How Ohio’s Mental Hospitals Are More Like Prisons

Tyeesha Ferguson, mother of Quincy Jackson III, in Springfield, Ohio, in May 2025. Ferguson has been advocating for her son to receive mental health treatment for most of his adult life. He has been ...
Houston Public Media

How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals into prisons

Family photos and hospital records of Quincy Jackson III, gathered by his mother, Tyeesha Ferguson. The mental health system makes it "easier to criminalize somebody than to get them help," she says. ...