As a psychiatric social worker at Washington’s Western State Hospital, Maria Claudio’s job is to care for some of the most complex mental health patients in the state. Washington's largest ...

He then was committed indefinitely to Western State Hospital ... be reinstated if circumstances regarding the defendants’ mental health changed. They learned recently that both men had been ...

Michael Kawamura, who oversees Pierce County’s public defender office, suspects the high number of Joel’s Law petitions filed in Pierce County could be due to the county being home to the largest ...