prisoner health care

After several weeks over the summer without a reported case, new coronavirus infections are turning up at the Indiana Women’s Prison, and some employees…

Under COVID-19 restrictions, inmates at the Indiana Women’s Prison have spent many hours a day locked in their cells, which do not have toilets or running…

Gov. Eric Holcomb often brags about the Indiana Women’s Prison. Last year, Holcomb showed the prison off to Ivanka Trump. He’s mentioned the prison in his…

Early one April morning, inmates at Indiana’s Plainfield Correctional Facility found a fellow inmate unconscious in his bed. “He was barely breathing when…

Sherrie Sanders says she last spoke with her husband, George, on April 12. It was Easter Sunday. “He told me he was very sick. He had a fever of 102,” she…

This story was updated at 3:45 p.m. on April 30, 2020 to include new information on Edwards' release date.On the day Scottie Edwards died, he nearly fell…

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…

Our prison population has been rapidly aging for years, and the additional care these elderly inmates require is expensive. But some prisons have created…

Civil liberties groups in Missouri and at least five other states are suing to get more inmates treated with hepatitis drugs that are highly effective but quite expensive.

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…