Scott County Jail workers allowed a woman in mental distress to repeatedly bang her head against cell walls for hours without ...

Scott County Jail workers allowed a woman in mental distress to repeatedly bang her head against cell walls without ...

The Iowa Office of Ombudsman released a 42-page report that jail staff failed to intervene and dismissed a woman's mental health crisis when she was detained.

The lawsuit alleges that jail staff and a private medical contractor failed to provide urgent medical care, which led to ...

Involuntary mental health holds have been one option to ensure someone in crisis, and deemed a danger to themselves, gets ...

The number of Indigenous people behind bars is rising. But some judges are bucking the trend by taking a different approach.

MassLive and The Republican spent nine months investigating what spurred the Mass. DOC's highest number of suicides in years.

After a series of deaths in the Montgomery County Jail, activists called on commissioners to take action on Tuesday. There were 18 deaths in the jail, located in downtown Dayton, reported to the state ...

Women describe conditions that violate longstanding agency guidelines for how pregnant detainees should be treated.

The votes come as high profile abuse cases in the state have raised questions among lawmakers about the reforms that may be ...

You want affordable housing and kids off phones. But when everyone acts alone, nobody gets what they want. That's what government is for.