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

Where did the data come from? To report this story, The Times analyzed data collected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that has gathered restraint information from ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul's office intervened to have a patient taken into police custody from a clinical setting in a state-run psychiatric hospital after a powerful union leader called her with concerns ...