State Asylum News Today

If you’ve lived in Phoenix long enough, you’ve probably heard at least something about Winnie Ruth Judd. In 1931, she was a young woman involved with a married man and, possibly acting out of romantic jealousy, she killed her two friends. Then she hopped a train for Los Angeles with the bodies packed into trunks — one body was dismembered. Judd was tried and found guilty, but

Chick Arnold was fired after suing over the government's failure to provide adequate care for people with mental illness.

Despite strides in services for people with disabilities, staff shortages and lack of training mean that some aren’t getting the services they need.

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