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

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

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

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

California prisons have failed for decades to provide staffing or treatment for many thousands of mentally ill inmates and ...

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

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

California remains in civil contempt for failing to provide constitutionally adequate mental-health care in its prisons, but a lower court must reconsider the state’s punishment, a federal appeals ...

The Department of Adult Correction is constitutionally required to provide medical, mental and dental health care to the ...

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 ...