Prison Health

In December 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report showing the number of homicides in state and federal institutions in 2019 was almost quadruple that of 2001, when the bureau began collecting data.

Over the past five years, 21 people have died while in custody of the Broward Sheriff's Office. Now groups are pushing for federal investigations.

Since 2021, 21 people have died in Broward County jails. Now organizations are calling for outside oversight.

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony Tells tells the "South Florida Roundup" that jails have become the go-to mental health facility in the country and he thinks can resolve the issues.

Efforts to improve addiction care in jails and prisons are underway across the country. But a rural Alabama county with one of the nation’s highest overdose rates shows how change is slow.

AP and the Marshall Project speak with correctional officers and union leaders nationwide, as well as health experts working inside prisons, to understand the decision-making despite the higher risk.

Four inmates sit silently in the library of the Franklin County House of Correction one summer morning. But these men aren't here to read books.

A new prison health contractor started moving into nine North Florida facilities over the weekend, an initial step toward providing care for more than...

A prison health-care company is asking a judge to allow it to pursue a challenge to the Florida Department of Corrections' decision in January to award...

Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones is under fire for signing a $268 million, no-bid contract for prison health services after one of the st...

Florida prisons chief Julie Jones is considering hiring temp agencies to fill in the gap after Corizon Health officials decided to walk away from the...

For more than 20 years, the state of Florida and lawyers representing prisoners wrangled over inmates' health care, resulting in nearly a decade of…