When I was 19 years old, I was arrested for breaking a window in Baltimore County. It was one of those ill-advised acts that only a teenager on the wrong track could rationalize. Shortly thereafter, I ...

SERVING TIME BEHIND BARS. THE FEDERAL JUDGE’S CONTEMPT RULING SLAPS A FINE OF NEARLY $112 MILLION ON THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION, THE SAN FRANCISCO LAWYER REPRESENTING ...

HELENA — State corrections officials are scrambling to find money to pay for mental-health care of inmates at Montana State Prison, since legislative bud get cuts left the prison $250,000 short of ...

SACRAMENTO — California commissioned an exhaustive study of whether its prisons are providing sufficient mental health care, an effort officials said they could use to try to end a 34-year-old federal ...

An officer opens a dorm room for a prisoner at the Central California Women's Facility. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Following through on intentions broadcast a year ago, a federal judge is ...

Chief U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller on June 25 ordered the state to pay $112 million in fines for failing to hire enough mental health professionals to adequately treat tens of thousands of ...

A federal judge has found top California officials in contempt for failing to hire enough mental health professionals to adequately treat tens of thousands of incarcerated people with serious mental ...

Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia is a psychologist and the newly appointed executive director of the Cook County Jail in Chicago, one of the biggest prisons in the country. She shares how her plans to address ...

Kimberley Wilson has worked in prisons and with patients from all walks of life. Her years of providing therapy suggest improved nutrition could be key to mental health and brain function. When you ...

SACRAMENTO — Following through on intentions broadcast a year ago, a federal judge is putting control of California’s troubled inmate mental health programs into the hands of an outsider: President ...