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 ...

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, ...

To give more seriously ill incarcerated people the opportunity to go home before they die, North Carolina lawmakers expanded the eligibility criteria of prison medical release in 2023. But data ...

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 ...

Darren Powell worries he could die in prison — and not because he’s serving a life sentence. He worries about dying due to a lapse in his medication. Takeaways Prison medical staffers move slowly, ...

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 ...

Oregon Department of Corrections Director Mike Reese seemed to strike a blow for accountability earlier this month when he fired two top health administrators in his agency and hired a consultant to ...