The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own ...

Living Unit C, or the South Cell House, is seen in September 2015 at the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa.

Katz, the executive director of the independent prison monitor the John Howard Association, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the state of Illinois changing its prison health care provider.

Medical workers at state prisons could soon be employed by a private contractor in a move the Iowa Department of Corrections ...

Many who’ve been through restrictive housing attest to extreme isolation and confinement in small, dark, windowless cells.

The medical care Broadway received at the end of his life is commonplace for the nearly 30,000 people incarcerated by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC).

This bill calls on the Department of Corrections to provide the report with demographic data of prisoners receiving hospice and palliative care by December 1 of each year.

DES MOINES — Nurses and other health care staff in Iowa’s state-run prison system would be employed by a private company ...

Multiple correctional officers were hospitalized after being exposed to narcotics in the mail room of the federal penitentiary in Thomson on Wednesday.

But the state ran its own health care system for inmates until 14 years ago, and it was inadequate for both the prisoners and the Department of Corrections. That's when the decision was made to ...

This morning, September 25, a correctional officer reported to the Health Care Unit (HCU) at Shawnee Correctional Center with medical symptoms after conducting count in Housing Unit 1.