Prisons, in general, are for people sentenced for more serious crimes. The sentences are usually longer, and can be up to life. Prison inmates can also be civilly committed for addiction or treatment, ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: In prison, the intercom rules over mealtimes, medications, counts, and activities. And that doesn't work for those who don't hear well. This is ...

A life-threatening condition called sepsis kills hundreds of people in American jails and prisons each year, a USA TODAY investigation has found, but inmates with a history of drug use are at ...

New provider: Substandard medical care has caused preventable harm — and even death — to people locked up in American prisons ...

[DROPCAP] Washington County's proposal to kick a state-operated prison operation out of the former county jail threatens a rehabilitative program for state inmates who are approaching their release ...

NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs released Trapped in Time: The Silent Crisis of Elderly ...

Two French prisoners escaped from jail after sawing through the bars of their cells and using bedsheets to get out of the ...

Georgia prison officials are "deliberately indifferent" to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, ...