Covid is spreading, but incarcerated people are being told vaccines aren’t necessary. Last month, I spent nearly five days at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan with severe Covid-19. Because I’m ...

Experts discuss the threats coronavirus outbreaks in prison pose for the country Some inmates at Alabama state prison facilities asking for help amid the novel coronavirus pandemic highlighted what ...

Several inmates in federal prisons have tested positive for the coronavirus. Despite the federal government's guidance to stay inside and many states' stay-in-place orders, the Bureau of Prisons is ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois' most-hardened criminals are no match for COVID-19 as the virus is infecting inmates in several state prisons at a startling pace. At one state prison on Monday more than 40% ...

Coronavirus cases in North Carolina rose past 7,000 Wednesday and the state reported the first state prison inmate death, while leaders of at least one North Carolina town are optimistic that the ...

Mary Bodley lives just 25 miles from her son. But her firstborn might as well be a world away. Her son, Marcus Pierson, recently sent her his will. He fears he won’t be alive much longer. Pierson, a ...

I doubt people outside prison walls give a thought to what happens when one gets sick or old behind bars. Do they wonder who nurses the sick and the injured, who holds the hands of the critically ill ...

California’s top prisons official has ordered almost 3,500 inmates released early, according to a filing Tuesday in federal court, to thin populations in the overcrowded system in hopes of preventing ...

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump's former lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen will be released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement amid the coronavirus ...

A Tooele woman was sentenced last week to more than a year in prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $177,000 in small ...