Yet challenges remain. Despite receiving more than $400 million annually under the First Step Act, the Bureau of Prisons has ...

Turning things over to outside companies would cause all sorts of problems at Iowa prisons, writes Thomas Hansen.

His comments come after Trump's top envoy, Steve Witkoff, said yesterday that he was pulling the U.S. team of negotiators out ...

The "Big Beautiful Bill," enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump, includes devastating funding ...

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

The “big, beautiful bill” that passed Congress is a raw deal for working-class Americans. It should be called the ...

As recounted in his earlier book, Life and Death in Rikers Island, Venters' affiliation was with a health department rather than a corrections agency or a prisoner health services contractor. As a ...

Trump tax bill could close nine Illinois hospitals, health care advocates warn Chicago safety net hospitals — those that have 70% Medicaid utilization — also will be hit hard, according to ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pair of health care-related bills Tuesday that he said would put more controls on the pricing of pharmaceutical drugs sold through insurance plans while expanding insurance ...

A Pennsylvania-based prison healthcare company is suing the state claiming Tennessee officials refused to award it a contract without explanation, a move that risks “destroying” the state’s ...

Pritzker also signed House Bill 3019, known as the Healthcare Protection Expansion Act. Among other things, it prohibits state-regulated health plans from requiring prior authorization for outpatient ...

Most New Yorkers have never heard of the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA), but it's quietly costing working families hundreds of dollars each year. This hidden tax, embedded in our health care system ...