May 27 Justices rule for death row inmates with low IQ By Mark Sherman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states must look beyond an intelligence test score in borderline cases of mental disability to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed. The justices said in a 5-4… Continue reading
Mar 24 Watch Healing the psychological scars crippling Liberia in the wake of civil war By PBS News Hour After 14 years of civil war, more than 40 percent of Liberians suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. But most have nowhere to turn; the cash-strapped West African nation has only one psychiatrist for 4 million people. Special correspondent Molly Knight… Continue watching
Feb 23 Watch Military using unproven programs to take on mental illness By PBS News Hour Nearly one thousand veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder each week. A recent report from the Institute of Medicine found that few of the military programs for preventing mental illness have been tested or… Continue watching
Jan 03 Watch News Wrap: Arctic air lingers in Northeast as winter storm wraps up News Wrap: Arctic air lingers in Northeast as winter storm wraps up… Continue watching
Dec 16 Watch Can the U.S. find consensus in better mental health access to curb gun violence? Can the U.S. find consensus in better mental health access to curb gun violence?… Continue watching
Jun 05 One Photographer's Experience Documenting Mentally Ill Inmates By Victoria Fleischer Minneapolis photographer Jenn Ackerman spent months in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit (CPTU) of the Kentucky State Reformatory to learn about the experiences of prisoners with mental illness. Continue reading
Jun 03 Watch News Wrap: Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Able to Represent Himself in Court In other news Monday, a judge deemed Army Maj. Nidal Hasan competent to represent himself at his trial for the 2009 deadly shootings at Fort Hood. Also, a fire at a poultry plant in China killed at least 119 people. Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch Obama Calls for Stricter Gun Laws as New Details Emerge in Major Shooting Cases Obama Calls for Stricter Gun Laws as New Details Emerge in Major Shooting Cases… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch Gun Violence Is Public Health Crisis in Chicago So far in the first two months of this year, gun deaths in Chicago have already outpaced last year's explosive rate. Elizabeth Brackett of PBS member station WTTW explores the escalating public health crisis in Chicago due to the high… Continue watching