A pair of House bills seek to address personnel challenges within the Veterans Affairs Department and the Bureau of Prisons ...

Hawaiʻi has agreed to open its prisons and jails for inspection by two national experts who will assess the state’s troubled ...

People with mental illness are significantly overrepresented in our nation’s jails and prisons. Each year, roughly two ...

Glynn Simmons and Richard Phillips were exonerated after decades in prison. Their stories reflect huge disparities in who ...

After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for ...

Overcrowded prisons pose many risks, including serious impacts on mental health. In some countries, higher rates of suicide among prisoners have been linked to overcrowding. Suicide in prison ...

A federal judge has named a receiver to run California’s troubled prison mental health system. Colette Peters, a reformist ...

A CAGED torture killer has demanded human rights compensation claiming he suffered “mental trauma” when prison officers broke ...

A pair of national experts will determine what is needed to improve services for mentally ill inmates. Then lawmakers will be ...

The state has agreed to allow two national experts assess Hawaii’s mental health services inside prisons and jails.

The latest data from the Prison Policy Initiative paints a disturbing picture of how our criminal justice system fails to ...

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