State-supported mental health care, like many social services, has been especially vulnerable in the recent rounds of budget cuts. Over the past two years, some $1.6 billion has been slashed from non-Medicaid state spending on mental health, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. But a growing number of law enforcement officials — along with mental health advocates — are voicing concerns that such cutbacks not only hurt mental health beneficiaries but also overburden the country’s prison system.

Delaware has a 24-hour hot line that is the first point of contact for many victims of domestic abuse.

But for people with special health problems, help can be more than a phone call away.

After a six-day trial, a federal jury awarded $225,000 on Wednesday to a Baltimore County police detective who suffered a seizure on the job in 1996.

Manny Steinman was only a child during the eight years he spent at Faribault State Hospital, but some things he’ll never forget.

A mentally retarded Costa Mesa man has been held by immigration officials for nearly five years without a chance to challenge his detention, the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday.