A news investigation prompting Mississippi to reopen two dozen cases of people who died in prison is highlighting systemic ...

In the past decade, more than 30 people who were experiencing a health crisis in New York prisons died of preventable or ...

The state no longer is considering contracting with a private company to provide health care services in Iowa's nine prisons, according to a union leader whose group represents prison officers.

Two new legislative audits paint a picture of inadequate and flawed mental health care in Utah’s state prison in Salt Lake ...

Editor's Note: On Nov. 20, 2025, nearly a week after The Midwest Newsroom asked the Iowa Department of Corrections to comment for this article, department communications specialist Zach Carlyle ...

Iowa issued a request for proposals in July to explore privatizing prison health care, but it now says it won't award a ...

Prison officials are trying to reduce the risk of overdose by providing medications for opioid use disorder before release.

Cumberland County commissioners voted 3-0 Thursday to retain a prison health care provider that recenty lost a longstanding contract in Dauphin County. After all that, Dauphin commissioners, in a ...

Mohammed Asif, 35, owned an Everett-based testing laboratory and billed Medicare for COVID-19 tests that patients never ...

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In a wide-ranging interview on this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics, Gov. Sarah Sanders offered thoughts on a ...