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This post was updated at 1:05 pm on 4/13/20 to include new infections reported by the state. On Monday, April 6, an inmate at Indiana’s Plainfield…
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Updated 04/08/2020 at 5:24 pm.On Wednesday, Indiana's Joint Information Center confirmed to Side Effects that 10 prisoners in state Department of…
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Ashoor Rasho has spent more than half of his life alone in a prison cell—22 to 24 hours a day. The cell was so narrow he could reach his arms out and…
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The Illinois Department of Corrections continues to flounder in its efforts to care for inmates with mental illness, according to a new report authored by…
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Alisha Floyd bounces her son Chance on her lap. He giggles and pulls her hair.“He’s the fattest baby here,” she says, laughing.Chance is 4 months old, and…
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Prisoners have a constitutional right to health care, but inmates at Angola prison in Louisiana are suing for medical shortfalls that have allegedly caused "needless pain and suffering."
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The state of mental health care in Mississippi has been in freefall for years.As a consequence of the ripple effects of the financial crisis, Mississippi…
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Correctional facilities are responsible for providing health services to people who are jailed, but that doesn’t mean that prisoners don’t face financial…
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Even going to prison doesn’t spare patients from having to pay medical copays.In response to the rapidly rising cost of providing health care, states are…