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

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

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

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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.