Identifying trauma in probationers with mental illness can help tailor the treatment they need to potentially reduce their risk of incarceration, research finds.

There is an urgent need for geriatric and end-of-life care in US prisons, but researchers find wide variation in what's accessible to incarcerated people.

Telehealth visits with tobacco treatment specialists may help smokers in rural prisons quit tobacco smoking.

Citing COVID threat, researchers urge policy changes to ease prison crowding. New study recommends early release for inmates at low risk of reoffending.

Life prison sentences are getting longer and longer.

Fewer than half of inmates in jails and prisons surveyed say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine. Distrust in the system was most often cited as why.

There have been more than 492,000 cases of COVID-19 in US prisons, jails, and detention centers—and more than 2,500 deaths. Here's what needs to change.

Criminal justice and public health experts recommend decarceration, or releasing certain people from prison, to protect the public from COVID-19.

Researchers have identified three things that, in combination, could end a coronavirus outbreak in prison.