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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It was the first of 13 plaques to be placed around Chicago denoting historic sites of the Black Panther Party. They were ...

A Pennsylvania-based prison health care company is suing the state claiming Tennessee officials refused to award it a contract without explanation, a move that risks "destroying" the state's ...