Article: Michaelina A. Ercolano.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

Article: To deal with mentally ill, cops act as 'social workers'; As police increasingly encounter the mentally ill across US, efforts are under way to instill a softer touch.(USA)
The Christian Science Monitor;  April 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......change Lt. Steve Haynes's view of the mentally ill. He discovered that an old high-school...really opened my eyes to seeing the mentally ill as real people. It's easy to become...if he faces a crisis involving the mentally ill, he says he'll be more sensitive to...

Article: HEALTH-PERU: PLIGHT OF THE MENTALLY ILL
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  February 5, 1999 ;     667 words ......disturbing details about the plight of mentally ill Peruvians forced to wander aimlessly...dehydration. Nearly 80 percent of the mentally ill enoumntered said they had a family that...Conference. The initiative to survey the mentally ill emerged from the need to better understand...

Article: The devil in deinstitutionalizing.(mentally ill are not well-served by current system)
Insight on the News;  September 14, 1998 ;     700+ words ...The 30-year movement to free the mentally Ill from `snakepit' institutions may have...attempted mainstreaming of the seriously mentally ill tend to resurface when people with a...criminally insane. Although most of the mentally ill never have brushes with the law and...

Article: Locked up; Mental illness.(The American penal system and the mentally ill)
The Economist (US);  November 15, 2003 ;     645 words ......replaced hospitals as the main home for the mentally ill IN AN Illinois prison, one inmate hears...only serving as a warehouse for the mentally ill but is also acting as an incubator for...new drugs has made it possible for the mentally ill to be treated outside hospital. And...

Article: Housing for mentally ill
Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  September 4, 2001 ;     425 words ......brother-in-law there. My brother-in-law has been mentally ill all of his adult life. Ten years ago...residential facility for the chronically mentally ill. It now only houses the criminally mentally ill. So where did all these mentally ill...

Article: More mentally ill in cells
The Press;  October 28, 2003 ;     359 words ...The number of mentally ill people taken into police custody...front-line police have with the mentally ill every day, the Police Association...financial year showed the number of mentally ill taken into custody rose last year...

Article: Teacher's case opened door for mentally ill
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Menatlly Ill Teacher's case opened door for mentally ill But some former patients became society...constitutional protection for the mentally ill so they could no longer be held against...life for hundreds of Milwaukee County's mentally ill. Many of the mentally ill ...

Article: A STRONG ADVOCATE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 27, 2000 ;     263 words ......11-27-2000 A STRONG ADVOCATE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL Date: 11-27-2000, Monday Section: OPINION...McAleavy for being an advocate for the mentally ill. This is a thank you for her understanding...Knowledge (K); and Support (S) for the mentally ill. Research by doctors and lawyers, as...

Article: MENTALLY ILL REPORTEDLY SHORT CHANGED.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 6, 1990 ;     384 words ......Gesensway Capitol bureau New York's mentally ill have been getting lost in the budget...said Jean Hebb of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of New York State. The problems of the mentally ill have not had their year yet. Advocates...

Article: THE MENTALLY ILL THE ISSUE: TWO DEVELOPMENTS MAY WORK IN THEIR FAVOR. OUR VIEW: THEY HAVE LONG BEEN AT THE REAR OF THE LINE.
Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current);  October 8, 2008 ;     421 words ......developments last week could work in favor of mentally ill Americans who have long been at the...dealing with their illnesses. Care for the mentally ill has been an issue in Indiana and other...primary care centers for many of our mentally ill citizens. But last week, while all ...

Article: FOR MENTALLY ILL, LEGAL SYSTEM FULL OF CONDITIONS AND CONSEQUENCES.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 23, 1986 ;     494 words ...Byline: Harvy LipmanStaff writer Though a mentally ill person accused of a crime can try to...defendant to prove not only that he is mentally ill, but also that he lacks substantial...consequences of his act.Most of the mentally ill are not psychotic all the time. Their...

Article: HIGH NUMBER OF MENTALLY ILL IN PRISON THEY'RE MORE LIKELY VIOLENT, REPORT FINDS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 12, 1999 ;     493 words ......and jails held an estimated 283,800 mentally ill inmates in 1998, and they were more...results do not mean necessarily the mentally ill are more violent than others, but that...estimated that an additional 547,800 mentally ill offenders have been released on probation...

Article: Panel Urges More Spending For Mentally Ill
The Washington Post;  April 5, 1988 ;     342 words ......federal government's effort to help the mentally ill is inefficient and underfunded, according...Government in Providing Services for the Mentally Ill," the report details results of an investigation...community services for the most severely mentally ill." Among the recommendations ...

Article: MENTAL-HEALTH SERVICES CONTRACT CHALLENGED\ ADVOCATES CRITICIZE TERMS THAT SEEM TO FAVOR THE CURRENT PROVIDER AND THE LACK OF INPUT FROM THE MENTALLY ILL.
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  July 4, 1998 ;     432 words ......amp; STATE MAINE Advocates for the mentally ill complained this week that a $400,000...illness - now held by the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Maine - unfairly limits competition...be written with the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Maine in mind. Critics objected that...