Involuntary

Image: Adobe StockWhy would public defenders representing patients want a requirement that prosecutors be present? Each year, Bob Ward, an assistant public…

BOSTON - Lawyers for people with mental illness and people with disabilities lined up Monday afternoon to urge a legislative committee to again reject laws that would allow court-ordered outpatient treatment programs for people with severe…

Lawyers for people with mental illness and people with disabilities lined up Monday afternoon to urge a legislative committee to again reject laws that would allow court-ordered outpatient treatment programs for people…

Hawaii residents with mental illness so severe and persistent that they do not even realize they need help may be instructed by a judge to seek outpatient treatment. But since Hawaii Revision of the law on the treatment of…