Quantcast

ON THE DEFENSIVE: Mental health reform key to gun control

Sometimes lost in the debate over gun control is the fact that this country needs meaningful change to the way in which mental health treatment is ordered, offered and executed.

Racine sex assault case tests health record access

The Wisconsin Supreme Court must decide whether defendants should get managed access to mental health records of an alleged molestation victim in a case tied to the criminal prosecution of a billionaire executive from Racine.

Court upholds sentence at women’s prison (UPDATE)

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court rejected a schizophrenic inmate’s request for a new sentence because she can’t get proper mental health care at Wisconsin’s largest women’s prison, ruling Wednesday that problems at the facility are nothing new. Taycheedah Correctional Institution’s inability to provide its inmates with appropriate [...]

Copyright © 2013, The Daily Reporter Publishing Co., 225 E. Michigan St., Suite 540, Milwaukee, WI 53202