Who’s in Ohio’s Psychiatric Hospitals, How Did They Get There and When Do They Get Out?

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

How Ohio’s Mental Hospitals Are More Like Prisons

Tyeesha Ferguson, mother of Quincy Jackson III, in Springfield, Ohio, in May 2025. Ferguson has been advocating for her son to receive mental health treatment for most of his adult life. He has been ...
Houston Public Media

How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals into prisons

Family photos and hospital records of Quincy Jackson III, gathered by his mother, Tyeesha Ferguson. The mental health system makes it "easier to criminalize somebody than to get them help," she says. ...
WVXU

How systemic failures turn state mental hospitals into prisons

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Tyeesha Ferguson fears her 28-year-old son will kill or be killed. "That's what I'm trying to avoid," said Ferguson, who still calls Quincy Jackson III her baby. She remembers a ...
The Marshall Project

Who’s in Ohio’s Psychiatric Hospitals, How Did They Get There and When Do They Get Out?

Ohio’s state-run psychiatric hospital system serves more than 1,000 patients daily. It’s a system of last resort for people with no money, no insurance, severe mental illness and nowhere else to go.