The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to prison inmates ...

Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

*Sean “Diddy” Combs’ prison stint took an unexpected turn last week when the embattled music mogul was taken from his federal prison cell to a Brooklyn hospital for medical treatment.

According to the ACLU, federal courts have the authority to appoint a receiver to take over the management of prison health care operations to address the issues raised by the monitors and help the ...

Tom Girardi will have to spend more time in a federal medical prison facility after delays with a court-ordered mental evaluation prompted a federal judge on Thursday to extend the procedure ...

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons. Meanwhile, a pregnant inmate at the Perryville complex describes her ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto If women needed gynecological care at an all-female prison in southern California ... along with being denied medical care at the facility, where he was the only ...

A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...