Mental Health

“Jails and prisons are not treatment facilities, and they are certainly not assisted living centers and are not facilities with memory care units,” notes lawyer and author Elizabeth Kelley.

Cuando abra el 28 de julio, el Centro de Crisis Juvenil en el Instituto de Salud Mental Huntsman atenderá emergencias no médicas como angustia emocional, ansiedad, depresión y conductas suicidas.

When it opens on July 28, the Youth Crisis Center at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute will care for non-medical emergencies such as emotional distress, anxiety, depression and suicidal behavior.

While a Utah judge set a September execution date, the court scheduled another hearing to determine whether the inmate with dementia needs another mental evaluation to determine competency.

Sixty-seven-year-old Ralph Menzies, despite suffering from dementia, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.

AI has a role to play in mental health care, but it also comes with potential risks.

Utah no tiene un plan estatal de acción contra el calor, ni muchas localidades cuentan con centros de enfriamiento donde los habitantes puedan refugiarse del calor.

Utah doesn’t have a statewide heat-action plan in place, nor do many localities have cooling centers where Utahns can visit to escape the heat.

A convicted killer who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years has been ruled competent enough to be executed. Menzies was sentenced to die in 1988 for killing mother of three Maurine Hunsaker.

Ralph Leroy Menzies was sentenced to die in 1988 for the killing of Maurine Hunsaker. His attorneys say the 67-year-old inmate’s dementia is so severe that he cannot understand why he’s to be executed.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

Utah has a combined $56 million in settlement funds that counties are deciding how to spend. Critics question if police gear and wages are the best use of the money — saying treatment and recovery have historically been underfunded.