Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies Carlos Martinez is a medical anthropologist, whose work often ...

Nineteen inmates filed a class-action lawsuit claiming Illinois prisons punish instead of treat mental illness. Advocates say ...

A Colorado sheriff's deputy was sentenced to three years in prison after he was convicted of criminally negligent homicide in ...

A new national epidemiological survey provides a demographic and diagnostic picture of people living with mental ill health ...

Uptown People’s Law Center and Equip for Equality filed a class action lawsuit against IDOC Director Latoya Hughes on behalf ...

Panelists came together Thursday in Normal to share their stories and talk about the psychological impacts of adjusting from ...

Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina ...

A new national epidemiological survey provides a demographic and diagnostic picture of people living with mental ill health in prison, those with criminal legal involvement in the last year, and those ...

The ruling is the latest chapter in a decades-long case over the inadequacy of the state prison system's mental health care.

Sinmyah Ceasar, 30, will now spend 19 years behind bars following the stiff sentence set by Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Kiyo ...

A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy convicted of killing a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help was sentenced ...