Under scrutiny over prison deaths and living conditions, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections has received recommendations that aim to improve life in adult prisons, including solitary confinement, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge has ordered a receivership over health care services inside Arizona's prisons, removing control from the state ...

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The state recently approved paying the law firm Butler Snow $700,000 for monitoring prison health care.

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...

Transgender people have been the focus of an aggressive legislative push to mitigate their access to health care in recent years, and now trans prisoners are facing a new offensive. President Donald ...

The chair of a state committee intended to independently monitor how the Delaware Department of Correction delivers health care was paid more than $20,000 to provide expert testimony defending that ...

The Birmingham-based healthcare provider that won an emergency contract to provide services in Alabama prisons has faced controversies over its services in other states. NaphCare, which signed a $500 ...

A Sun-Times review of more than 100 lawsuits against Centurion Health shows a recurring pattern: People in prison repeatedly complain about a health issue, are ignored by correctional and medical ...