Glynn Simmons and Richard Phillips were exonerated after decades in prison. Their stories reflect huge disparities in who ...

People with mental illness are significantly overrepresented in our nation’s jails and prisons. Each year, roughly two ...

After 35 years of failing reports and climbing suicide rates, a federal judge is appointing an outsider to propose fixes for ...

The latest data from the Prison Policy Initiative paints a disturbing picture of how our criminal justice system fails to ...

A federal judge has named a receiver to run California’s troubled prison mental health system. Colette Peters, a reformist ...

A panel of judges found that fines were justified after California failed to staff its prisons with enough mental health ...

A CAGED torture killer has demanded human rights compensation claiming he suffered “mental trauma” when prison officers broke ...

The disbarred attorney spent about 45 days at a federal prison for inmates who have special health needs to determine his ...

Rep. Humphrey proposes laws to abolish ODMHSAS and rebrand DOC due to mental health and prison issues in Oklahoma.

With inmate suicide rates at an all-time high, U.S. District Senior Judge Kimberly Mueller said her aim is to force changes in California's prison mental health system, which a federal judge in ...