Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

A state police investigation determined the death of a 46-year-old Snyder County inmate in Clinton County Prison on Nov. 17 was a suicide.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house immigrants ...

State correctional officials said an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison from Monterey County died Monday in an apparent homicide.

Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing the end of his third stint in an Oregon correctional facility on drug charges, he was thinking about what life on the outside would be like yet again.

Start your morning with The National News Desk as Jan Jeffcoat sits down with retired FBI Agent and former Chicago Police ...

With an estimated 70% of male and 77% of female inmates in Oregon state prisons said to have substance use disorders, the ...

A look back at past reporting in the East Oregonian thanks to Heritage Station, the Umatilla County Historical Society Museum ...

Last fall, InvestigateWest published a series of stories that reported cases of rape and abuse by Idaho's prison guards. It was called Guarded by Predators and alleged the corrections system shields ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Salem man will serve more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a child under the age of 13 in Dallas, Ore. On Feb. 9, Julius Cavada Panimdim, 38 ...

Wayne Antusas sits behind a wooden desk in a classroom in the A3 unit at Westville Correctional Facility, wearing a black T-shirt and a black baseball cap emblazoned with the Builder of Men Ministries ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Workers and inmates at Coastal State Prison are reporting what they call a human rights crisis, echoing findings from a federal investigation into Georgia’s prison system. A ...