Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

Known as the Wanini Kireri Magereza Hospital, the facility is expected to serve prison officers, more than 60,000 inmates, as well as members of the public living around the area.

Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can ...

Transgender people have been the focus of an aggressive legislative push to mitigate their access to health care in recent years, and now trans prisoners are facing a new offensive. President Donald ...

Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark ...

In at least 20 of the 29 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.

Bridgewater is the nation’s only forensic psychiatric facility run by a corrections department, rather than a state mental ...

Prime Minister Robert Abela signalled possible changes to the penalties imposed on women who terminate their own pregnancies, ...

Law schools and legal aid groups are partnering with the N.C. Department of Adult Correction to guide incarcerated people through driver's license restoration.

“The Madigan OB/GYN and Maternal Child Health departments are committed to delivering world-class care that supports service members, beneficiaries and their families at every stage of life,” said Lt.

Nathan Chasing Horse will be sentenced for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls, drawing to a close a case that sent shock waves through Indian Country.

An inmate has claimed he heard guards discussing a cover-up after Jeffrey Epstein's dead body was found behind bars.