Each dollar a state spends on mental health care cuts roughly 25 cents off its jail expenditures by reducing its inmate population, a new study shows.
Nov 2, 2016
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Researchers have identified a simple intervention that may help reduce levels of violence in maximum security prisons. Inmates who viewed nature videos showed reduced levels of aggression and were less likely to be disciplined ...
Aug 5, 2016
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Worldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B infections.
Jul 15, 2016
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When he was a teenager, Lee Gonzales could not save his uncle from a heroin overdose. Now he worries that the same drug could kill him after he gets out of jail.
Mar 23, 2016
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Consequences of incarceration on former inmates and their families are well known. But how does imprisonment affect the health care system as a whole?
Sep 11, 2015
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The perceived trustworthiness of an inmate's face may determine the severity of the sentence he receives, according to new research using photos and sentencing data for inmates in the state of Florida. The research, published ...
Jul 15, 2015
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It turns out running a jail can be even more expensive than previously thought.
May 21, 2015
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A new study finds that effective new hepatitis C drugs are so expensive the state of Rhode Island would have to spend almost twice its entire prison health budget to treat all its chronically infected inmates. Even providing ...
Apr 9, 2015
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New research by a UT Dallas criminologist has found that a substantial number of prison inmates have not received treatment for mental health conditions.
Feb 23, 2015
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Case Western Reserve University mental health researcher Joseph Galanek spent a cumulative nine months in an Oregon maximum-security prison to learn first-hand how the prison manages inmates with mental illness.
Oct 27, 2014
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