The state is backing out of its 10-year, $4 billion contract with Wexford Health Sources, but the new contractor has its own ...

After decades of protest from prisoner’s rights activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) ...

Katz, the executive director of the independent prison monitor the John Howard Association, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the state of Illinois changing its prison health care provider.

After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system ...

The state last week issued a request for proposal seeking pitches from private health care companies who may wish to provide health care services at Iowa’s nine correctional institutions.

DES MOINES — Nurses and other health care staff in Iowa’s state-run prison system would be employed by a private company under a request for proposal that the state will release soon, according to an ...

Nurses and other health care staff in Iowa’s state-run prison system would be employed by a private company under a request for proposal that the state will release soon.

Michael McClain was sentenced Thursday for his role in a plot to illegally influence former Illinois House Speaker Michael ...

Many who’ve been through restrictive housing attest to extreme isolation and confinement in small, dark, windowless cells.

Medical workers at state prisons could soon be employed by a private contractor in a move the Iowa Department of Corrections is exploring.