The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to prison inmates ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Correctional Health Care Services and the Department ...

According to the ACLU, federal courts have the authority to appoint a receiver to take over the management of prison health care operations to address the issues raised by the monitors and help the ...

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons.

Wrist monitors like the BI VeriWatch dominated at a recent industry conference. But some 20 miles away, incarcerated men had ...

State Senator Rachel Ventura has introduced a series of criminal justice reform policies, including medication-assisted treatment programs and a canine unit to detect illegal drugs in prison mail.

ACA auditors spent these three days conducting inspections, reviewing policies and procedures and evaluating the staff’s work to ensure best practices were met at the prison. This marks the 45th N.C.

The attorney requested the extension to report to prison “due to a very new and serious medical condition.” There's a new twist in the two-year-old criminal case against a father-daughter ...