Barnstable County Sheriff Donna D ... of in-patient mental health hospitals over the last 40 years” daily. Hospital emergency rooms and jails have become “de-facto mental health treatment ...

Dylan Fernandes and Barnstable County Sheriff Donna Buckley ... have an incident on the Cape and are deemed to require a hospital level of care, there is nowhere for them to go," Hardigan said.

A Cape Cod man is set to be arraigned on Wednesday for manslaughter in the 2024 death of his mother, who formerly worked as a librarian at the Sandwich Public Library.