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3 Sep 2007, 12:49 am
Prison workers (Texas has one of the biggest prison systems in the world) and social service workers make up more than a third of the state work force. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
“patchwork” system of incarceration, ultimately fall far short of the extensive regulatory framework governing Medicare/Medicaid, which shapes health care for over 83 million people in the U.S. [read post]
22 May 2008, 10:54 am
Huard, a prisoner at the Middleton jail in has filed a $9.9 million personal injury lawsuit in federal court against the Massachusetts State Prison System, the Middlesex sheriff, other Massachusetts officials, and several doctors. [read post]
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) published a report Tuesday detailing continued racial disparities in the Allegheny County Prison System in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 11:46 am
Inmates in Federal prisons and politicians (among others) routinely jump the queue and we agree that this practice is outrageous. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 8:00 am
I’ve seen firsthand how the criminal justice system fails women in prison by not providing mental health resources and education. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 7:39 am by Dean Freeman
Florida’s prison system and jails are coming under fire amid a host of inmate injuries and deaths that are alleged to have been caused by abuse and neglect. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 7:07 pm
"It's a real awakening to realize that prisons serve as the largest mental health provider in the country. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 8:59 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Currently, Florida operates the third-largest prison system in the United States, a $2.2 billion-a-year enterprise overseeing over 100,000 inmates and another 115,000 on community supervision. [read post]
25 May 2018, 9:30 am
Amy: Chase and I are working on a case right now about health care for transgender people in prison. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 2:00 pm
Broward County Jail has a sordid history of damage and death due to its dangerously substandard mental health system and unsafe conditions. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 1:12 pm by Mike Scarcella
A doctor who was tried and convicted on charges on fraud charges in a health care prosecution will serve less time in prison than he initially thought. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 6:01 am by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
It is a privilege and honor to be able to offer that help in whatever way we can,” said Julie Catellier, Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System director, said in a news release. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 8:44 am by By Hedy Weinberg, ACLU of Tennessee
  At the time, privatization was being hailed as the "cure-all" to numerous problems plaguing the Tennessee prison system. [read post]
5 Oct 2014, 5:00 pm
Researchers believe that the failure to parole inmates is due to a lack of pressure in the system. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 4:52 am by SHG
Abolition means not just the closing of prisons but the presence, instead, of vital systems of support that many communities lack. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 5:39 pm by Vickie Williams
  If we want world-class health care for all, we cannot remain prisoners of the accidents of history that shaped our current health care system. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 4:02 am
North Carolina and Alabama have joined a growing number of states establishing programs that allow the release of dying or infirm prisoners to cut prison system health care costs. [read post]
26 Aug 2007, 8:51 pm
Robert Sillen, court-appointed health-care receiver for California's plagued prisons has been making waves and progress. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 8:00 am by Daniel Perlman
“Our system has taken the highest-risk and most ill people and put them in a place where they have constitutionally mandated health care,” Rich says. [read post]