Currently, a good deal of treatment is being provided for mentally ill inmates within the prison system, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the US Department of Justice. [1] A ...

Legislators told an Alabama Department of Corrections official Wednesday that they were concerned by reports that inmates were not getting access to rehabilitation programs in a timely manner. Members ...

This story is a collaboration between Illinois Answers and the Chicago bureau of MindSite News. Bloomington native Shayla ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs is spending his early prison days working in the chapel and enrolled in an intensive drug treatment program, according to prison documents exclusively obtained by CBS News. He has ...

SPRINGFIELD - A prison watchdog group says the state's mushrooming prison population is forcing some inmates to wait years for substance abuse treatment programs. The Chicago-based John Howard ...

Evan Ashkin, a family physician and director of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program, has long been concerned about people who are returning to the community from prison — ...

When Colorado lawmakers overhauled the state’s system of sentencing and monitoring sex offenders in 1998, supporters described the lifetime supervision policy as a comprehensive way to protect the ...

Alan Elizalde waits for a judge to determine whether he will return to jail on June 26, 2025. Photo by Abigail Van Neely. The day before Alan Elizalde was supposed to finish the first phase of his ...