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Survey of Arkansas Jails Reveals Strained, Costly Health Care System by Abbey Kim by Abbey Kim This article was originally published in Arkansas Advocate.   County jails in Arkansas hold some of the state’s most vulnerable people, including many experiencing mental health crises.Hundreds are detained in county jails awaiting psychiatric …
Mississippi DOC Retains Law Firm to Monitor VitalCore Contract by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Mississippi has had recurring problems from the private healthcare providers they have hired for their prisons. The problems accumulating with VitalCore Health Strategies, their current provider, have pushed the state into hiring a law firm …
In Texas, Harris County Commissioners Approve $1.2 Million for Fourth Study of Jail Since 2020 After Dozens of Abuse Allegations by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 12, 2026, the Commissioners Court of Harris County, Texas, voted 3-1 to approve paying CGL Management Group, LLC, a justice-system consulting firm, …
Watchdog Report Finds More than 1,500 Waiting for Specialty Care at Connecticut Prisons by Wait times for prisoners in Connecticut who need to see a specialist for treatment can often extend for months. And as more prisoners linger without care, the backlog of patients only grows. As of mid-March 2026, …
Faults Found with Centurion in Kansas Four Years Ago Are Still Not Fixed by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Kansas has a mechanism in place that allows it to fine the medical provider contracted to serve the Department of Corrections (DOC). From just January through September of 2025, Centurion, the …
Texas Attorney General Clarifies Scope of Statute Requiring Outside Agency Investigation of Jail Deaths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 12, 2026, Texas Attorney General (TAG) Ken Paxton issued an opinion clarifying the scope of a statute requiring the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) to appoint an …
California County Hires New Healthcare Company After Jail Deaths Under Wellpath by On March 10, supervisors of the Shasta County Jail in Redding, California voted unanimously in favor of a three-year, $25 million contract with Mediko Correctional Healthcare to take over the jail’s medical and mental health services. The jail, …
Missouri Prisons Called Out for Incomplete Death Records, Hellish Solitary Heat by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Missouri has made clear its disregard for its state prisoners as much through what it doesn’t do as what it does, according to new research that found dozens of unreported deaths, as well …
Groundbreaking Statistical Study of Pregnant Texas Jail Detainees Finds Over 400 Monthly by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Pregnant women in jails are a long-neglected and overlooked population. Federal law does not require detailed statistical tracking of jail pregnancies. “What it symbolizes is that women who don’t count, don’t get …
New Illinois State Law Requires Prisons to Submit Annual Hospice Reports by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson American prison populations are aging rapidly while studies have continued to show that prisoners have significantly lower life expectancies than those outside of prisons. In Illinois, some 23% of state prisoners are over …
ICE Taps New Contractor to Run Deadly Detention Center in Texas by In early March, the administration of President Donald Trump (R) announced that it planned to offer a no-bid contract to an engineering and electronic services company to run the United States’s largest immigrant detention center, where one detainee …
Eleventh Circuit: District Court Erred in Dismissing BOP Prisoner’s Medical Claim, Finds Prison Officials Made Administrative Remedies Unavailable by David Reutter by David Reutter On August 6, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the dismissal of a prisoner’s medical Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and …
Detainee Death from Kidney Infection Highlights Broken Policy in Washington State by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Statistics provided by the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) show that 39 people died in state prisons in 2024. The annual death rate rose during the COVID-19 pandemic and has stayed high since. …
$6 Million Settlement with Washington DOC for Delayed Treatment That Let Prisoner’s Liver Cancer Become Fatal by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Under terms of a settlement reached in September 2025, Washington agreed to pay $6 million to the surviving daughter of a state prisoner who accused the state Department …
Overcrowded State Mental Hospitals Lead to Longer Jail Time and Lack of Treatment by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson Prospective mental health patients struggle to find beds in psychiatric hospitals across the nation. Most mental health hospitals are short-staffed and turn away patients who battle to find treatment options. The …
Private Prison Firm GEO Group Reports Record $254 Million Profit After New ICE Contracts by Brett Wilkins by Brett Wilkins This article was originally published in Common Dreams.   Private prison company GEO Group on February 12, 2026 reported a company record of $254 million in profit last year—a roughly …
Missouri Pays $212M for Prison Health Care, But Prisoner Deaths Aren’t a Performance Measure by Rudi Keller by Rudi Keller This article was originally published in the Missouri Independent.   Whether prisoners die while in state custody is not used to measure the performance of Missouri’s private prison health care …
Alarming Conditions at Texas Family Detention Center Owned by CoreCivic by In late February 2026, reporting on the Dilley Immigration Processing Center revealed harrowing details about the conditions under which families are being detained at the facility. Dilley received public attention last month following the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
Florida Sheriff Received $50,000 Donation from Jail Medical Contractor by Armor Health, the company that held a $24 million contract to provide healthcare at the Lee County Jail, gave local Sheriff Carmine Marceno a $50,000 donation four months before the medical contract was terminated, according to the The News-Press in …
Watchdog Blasts BOP for Failure to Treat Prisoner’s Preventable Cancer by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On January 6, 2026, federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials were lambasted by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the BOP’s parent agency, the federal Department of Justice, in a report cataloguing …
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