Prisons

Layers of barbed wire fencing surround the Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford, B.C. The massive, concrete prison sits among rural fields across from an elementary school, about 70 kilometres east of Vancouver.Despite the fortification, the…

The Biden administration this week accelerated efforts to fund opioid addiction treatment in jails and prisons, a core part of its drug policy agenda, calling on states to adopt a novel Medicaid program that will cover health care for…

By HILLEL ITALIE - AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Saying she is ready to share the “unfathomable” experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia, basketball star Brittney Griner is working…

Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to say whether he believed biologically male prisoners who identify as transgender posed a risk to female inmates during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday.Republican South Carolina Sen.…

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — The federal government is planning to allow states to use Medicaid funds to provide drugs to… CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — The…

By DOUG FEINBERG - AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner texted her good friend Diana Taurasi on Tuesday morning asking how the USA Basketball training camp was going.Griner was back in Arizona, choosing…

In a landscape of skyrocketing interest rates and a cost of living crisis that has seen staples like groceries, petrol and utilities increase over the past year, a growing number of Australians are already feeling the pinch. With the RBA…

An Indigenous human rights activist says he hopes an upcoming Correctional Service Canada (CSC) review of elder services at prisons will lead to meaningful change for the Indigenous inmates who make up 32 per cent of the prison…

Colorado legislators advanced a bill Tuesday to limit the use of physical restraints on inmates in acute mental health crises, sidestepping a disputed price tag and avoiding what one lawmaker described as the “soulless exercise” of trading…

A lawsuit from civil rights organizations accusing private prisons in Arizona of practicing slavery is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals amid a broad left-wing pushback against the use of private prisons and immigrant detention…