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Tips for journalists covering how police, judges, jails and prisons handle convicted and criminally charged people with mental illness.
The U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. A 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Estelle V. Gamble, declares that prisoners…
In most states, care for those with behavioral health problems is so poor that the nation’s prisons have become the…
One of the sessions featured at Health Journalism 2017 in Orlando explored the intersection of the criminal justice system and…
Jaclyn Cosgrove, a health writer at The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, was sorting through jail inspection reports from the state…
Our nation’s aging prison population is bringing to the forefront issues of geriatric mental health among inmates. There are no…
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With an increasingly aging prison population, how to care for inmates with chronic illnesses or other infirmities and those at…
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Is flossing a civil right? Eleven New York prisoners say it is. “We feel that the Westchester County Department of…