prison health

Efforts to improve addiction care in jails and prisons are underway across the country. But a rural Alabama county with one of the nation’s highest overdose rates shows how change is slow.

AP and the Marshall Project speak with correctional officers and union leaders nationwide, as well as health experts working inside prisons, to understand the decision-making despite the higher risk.

Four inmates sit silently in the library of the Franklin County House of Correction one summer morning. But these men aren't here to read books.

A new prison health contractor started moving into nine North Florida facilities over the weekend, an initial step toward providing care for more than...

A prison health-care company is asking a judge to allow it to pursue a challenge to the Florida Department of Corrections' decision in January to award...

Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones is under fire for signing a $268 million, no-bid contract for prison health services after one of the st...

Florida prisons chief Julie Jones is considering hiring temp agencies to fill in the gap after Corizon Health officials decided to walk away from the...

For more than 20 years, the state of Florida and lawyers representing prisoners wrangled over inmates' health care, resulting in nearly a decade of…