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

The offices of Maryland’s attorney general and public defender teamed up to release their first report on the issue.

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 ...

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

The lives of William Farmer and Lawrence Fenumiai ran parallel before merging with deadly consequences at the Anchorage jail in December. Both men were diagnosed with schizophrenia in their 20s, their ...

State police said a patient who fled Garnet's behavioral health unit was found in Port Jervis and now faces robbery and ...

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

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

Records show one Oklahoma women’s prison rarely substantiated abuse allegations or forwarded cases for criminal prosecution.

Marc-Anthony Cantrell, who is charged with the gruesome murders of two men in a Columbia SC residential care home, was a ...

House lawmakers signed off on a revised $37.7 billion budget for next year that includes increases in spending for education, ...

Nacogdoches County Sheriff Department has started a mental health deputy program to try and reduce the number of inmates dealing with mental health issues and not necessarily needing to go to jail.