Central Prison, a state-run prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. Three sisters feared their 64-year-old father, diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, would die in prison. One called Sandra Hardee, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko presents to the Joint Appropriations Committee on Jan. 23, 2025 ...

Prison Medical Neglect Should Outrage Us All Reform begins when we demand accountability from medical staff in prisons. There must be more thorough oversight and a stronger enforcement of higher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The outside of Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. The facility is Oregon's only women's ...

California has halted a court-ordered medical parole program, opting instead to send its most incapacitated prisoners back to state lockups or release them early. The unilateral termination is drawing ...

Editor's Note: On Nov. 20, 2025, nearly a week after The Midwest Newsroom asked the Iowa Department of Corrections to comment for this article, department communications specialist Zach Carlyle ...

PHILADELPHIA — Fifty years ago, Philadelphia prison officials ended a medical testing program that had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them ...

Conditions inside Indiana State Prison are fueling a suicide crisis, according to former mental health employees.