Professor Kelly said a great many of inmates with mental health problems are not hardened criminals but have committed public ...

2d 855 (S.D. Texas, 1999). Somewhere between two and three hundred thousand men and women in U.S. prisons suffer from mental disorders, including such serious illnesses as schizophrenia ...

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was released ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

Rep. Justin Humphrey filed a bill to move mental health services to the corrections department, but he says it was to draw ...

A six month-long project, implemented to provide mental health and psychosocial support services for some prison inmates and officers, has ended in Tamale.It was implemented in seven prisons across ...

Canton Police and Cherokee Sheriff’s Office arrived at the home and found Payne and Donaldson, dead, in separate bedrooms.