Several factors increase the risk of suicide in prison, including being young, male, on a first remand, imprisoned for ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — A man suffering from severe mental health episodes was sentenced to prison on Friday for a fatal stabbing.

A vulnerable young woman who said she 'felt safer in prison than in the community' took her own life behind bars after ...

The man who died in an upstate prison Saturday allegedly at the hands of correction officers during a wildcat strike showed ...

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

Prison, police and health bosses must respond to a coroner regarding the death of a woman killed by a sex offender who did ...

This means there’s a large need for health care services. Changing demographics of North Carolina’s prison population are also putting increased pressure on the prison health care system to meet the ...

Increased demand for medical, mental health and substance use treatment strains the prison system as incarcerated population grows older.

A Connecticut correction officer was stabbed in the neck last summer, and deploying a caustic pepper spray on recalcitrant ...

Imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences were introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012. But the law wasn't ...

Celeste Craig, 26, was found hanged at HMP Styal in 2016 - a report into her death has been published over eight years later ...

PTSD, depression, anxiety and social isolation continue to haunt former inmates of prison cells long after release.