Community leaders and local agencies in Columbus are working to address the deep connections between homelessness, ...

The Department of Correction told GBH News it is hiring an independent expert to review the six suspected and confirmed ...

One of the main culprits for increased incarceration in the United States is mental health. The solution to this problem is to make sure that people who are in prison receive the mental health care ...

Advocates for prisoners say the recent deaths "raise fundamental questions about whether the DOC can fulfill its most basic ...

R ALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - The NC Department of Health and Human Services and North Carolina First Lady Anna Stein are unveiling ...

State Correctional Institution-Benner Township, a Bellefonte, Pa.-based medium-security men’s prison, seeks to help patients with mental health issues by training prison staff and other inmates to ...

Overcrowding and poor healthcare contributed to a 50 per cent increase in prison deaths last year, according to a damning ...

As incarceration rates continue to soar in the Northern Territory, experts warn mental health reform in the justice system is ...

HELENA — State corrections officials are scrambling to find money to pay for mental-health care of inmates at Montana State Prison, since legislative bud get cuts left the prison $250,000 short of ...

Correctional Officer Thomas Grady, left, with the Salinas Valley Resource Team, walks through B Ward on March 6, 2025, where murals of comic book characters adorn the walls of the maximum security ...

Months after a court ordered a female inmate be transferred to a hospital, she was still locked up — a delay Europe’s top human rights court says crossed the line.

Tonantzyn Beltran was in the midst of a severe mental health episode when she fatally stabbed her mother in January 2024, her ...