A new study has shown that among incarcerated women, many have to trade or barter to access menstrual hygiene products. The study, which...

State and federal governments spend increasingly more money on consistently inadequate healthcare for their growing populations of...

The number of elderly Americans serving time in prison has skyrocketed in recent decades. In 1991, for example, just 3% of the men and...

The Stepping Up Initiative — supported by NACo, the American Psychiatric Association Foundation and the Council of State Governments...

In 2022, WHO published the Consolidated guidelines on HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key...

Rikers Island detainees fresh out of lockup — including some with serious mental illnesses — will soon receive free smartphones to better...

In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a first-of-its-kind waiver allowing California’s Medicaid ...

In carceral settings, the difference between punitive housing segregation (for example, solitary confinement) and segregation for public...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of HIV/AIDS Housing, which administers the Housing Opportunities for...

A new order issued Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court reset the clock on a Tacoma woman's time in jail to continue testing and...

Almost a quarter of inmates who died from violence behind bars in Louisiana over a six-year period were housed primarily in local jails ...

At least 17,000 adults age 50 and older have been released from Illinois prisons since 2014, and thousands more are in line to come out...

Imagine having to go into debt to stay in touch with a loved one — all while fearing for their safety and well-being. That is the grim...

Sixty-two percent of formerly incarcerated respondents to a 2020 survey reported that they rarely or never had access to fresh...

“Where it’s a mandatory sentence, you have no method to get them out and find appropriate places in the community for them," says Richard...

Jail populations dropped in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic but have now rebounded in many facilities to levels seen in early...

The statistics are familiar but remain startling: America’s incarceration rate per 100,000 is “roughly twice that of Russia’s and...

Significance Research on mass incarceration has documented its devastating consequences on incarcerated individuals, their families,...

AP News: California may allow more ill, dying inmates to leave prison California would allow more ill and dying inmates to be released...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished. When her mother died...