When Captain Craig Ward, who manages the Union County Jail, referred to the behavior of an inmate with mental illness as "bedlam," he was spot on. (The Oregonian, Mentally Ill Inmates Strain Rural ...

Even at a point when the entire system is in crisis, Parc’s problems have been particularly acute. It’s had more inmate deaths than any other jail so far this year. Warning: this report from our ...

EDGEFIELD COUNTY (WIS) - Two officers with the state Department of Corrections were treated for non-life-threatening injuries following a prison riot at Trenton Correctional Institute in Edgefield ...

The terrible death of Joseph Duran should erase any doubt that prisons are the wrong places for severely mentally ill prisoners, not that there had been any question before. As The Bee’s Sam Stanton ...