A nearly $20 million contract has been approved by the Montgomery County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) for building a ...

Santa Barbara County jails will expand their medical record system and how they share inmate diagnoses in response to civil grand jury reports examining ...

Milton Dusky was 33 years old and suffering from Schizophrenia. He was experiencing visual hallucinations, depression and ...

Federal judge orders NY to give mentally ill inmates more out-of-cell time in response to lawsuit filed by two advocacy ...

An estimated two in five people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Most receive no treatment for their mental health issues ...

County, state and federal prisons are very good at keeping inmates secure while incarcerated. At the same time, many locations struggle with the “corrective” part of corrections because facilities are ...

It is graduation day for a group of Sarpy County Correctional officers who received additional training, giving them the ...

The Corrections Director for Montgomery County speaks to 7News about the bed shortage in Maryland psychiatric hospitals.

Johnny Jaquess has accepted the fact that he runs the largest mental health care provider in Collin County. He’d rather not, but without significant reform on mental health care from the state ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Cracks in the American criminal justice system appear one at a time, often from seemingly unrelated causes. They ...

The Montana Legislature voted to override Gov. Greg Gianforte’s veto of a bill that would use state funds to reimburse counties some of the cost of holding inmates in local detention facilities while ...

The woman, Ourania Thimmhardy, spent months in the hospital after she was pushed out the front door of the Sacramento County Main Jail. Mark Merin, her attorney, has filed a civil rights lawsuit ...