An 83-page federal order strips the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry of its medical control ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko presents to the Joint Appropriations Committee on Jan. 23, 2025 ...

Central Prison, a state-run prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. Three sisters feared their 64-year-old father, diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, would die in prison. One called Sandra Hardee, ...

California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting instead to send its most incapacitated prisoners back to state lockups or release them early. The unilateral termination is drawing ...

Editor's Note: On Nov. 20, 2025, nearly a week after The Midwest Newsroom asked the Iowa Department of Corrections to comment for this article, department communications specialist Zach Carlyle ...

To give more seriously ill incarcerated people the opportunity to go home before they die, North Carolina lawmakers expanded the eligibility criteria of prison medical release in 2023. But data ...

A gynecologist at Oregon’s women’s prison was assigned to work in the mailroom after clashing with the chief corrections medical officer, Dr. Warren Roberts — an unprecedented sanction that an outside ...

Inmate medical care has been neglected at Nevada’s maximum security prison, the prison’s warden wrote in a memo distributed to medical providers earlier this year. Jeremy Bean, the warden of High ...

14-year-old Elin Facey is preparing to graduate with her high school diploma. Read full article: Duval County school officer who died remembered for kindness, commitment to community Jacksonville's ...

PHILADELPHIA — Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them ...