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Tips for journalists covering how police, judges, jails and prisons handle convicted and criminally charged people with mental illness.
Amid a nationwide push to pare the number of incarcerated people with mental and/or behavioral disorders, a South Dakota pilot…
Much remains unknown about the oral health status of more than two million incarcerated Americans, but research suggests that many dental needs…
Heather Boerner’s October 2018 piece at NPR examined the fate of people who live without treatment for their HIV after…
Over the course of the past year, more than two dozen Texas inmates contacted the Houston Chronicle with grim stories…
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…