How a newly opened pharmacy in SF’s county jail will offer better health care for inmates The new pharmacy, overseen by the Department of...

Community members returning from incarceration experience serious health disparities, which intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. In...

Society of Hospital Medicine:  Addressing the ethical and legal complexities of hospital visitation restrictions for patients who are...

Feeding incarcerated people has become big business as states and counties outsource their food service operations. The food behemoth...

This report presents updated research evidence that continues to amplify the need for gender-responsive principles and practices,...

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...