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Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth
Hospitals routinely report parents to child welfare authorities based on error-prone drug tests. Some hospitals are changing policy as a result.
A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Papers of children's hand drawings hang on the wall.
A person wearing a blue uniform and black messenger bag walks toward the entrance of a hospital with a blue sign that reads, "Virtua Health Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital."
Closing Argument October 5, 2024
Drug Testing of Pregnant Patients Is Discriminatory, Lawsuit Claims
The Marshall Project recently investigated how faulty drug tests at hospitals lead to pregnant women being reported to authorities and at times separated from their children.
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An illustration featuring a series of prisoners, dressed in orange uniforms, in varying poses of illness, such as hands cupping a face, coughing into a closed fist, bending over with hands on their knees for support.
Investigate This July 25, 2024
How to Investigate COVID’s Deadly Toll in Your State Prisons
Our toolkit helps you report on deadly systemic failures and analyze the pandemic as a case study of how facilities can prepare for the next crisis.
By The Marshall Project
A sheriff’s deputy and a nurse stand in front of a prison door to give medication to an incarcerated person.
Closing Argument June 8, 2024
Why Some States are Trying to Get People Medicaid Before They Leave Prison
People leaving prisons and jails are at greater risk of illness and death, but for years they couldn’t use the government health insurance program.
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An incarcerated person received a COVID-19 vaccination at the Bolivar County Regional Correctional Facility in Cleveland, Miss., in April.
News December 22, 2021
Omicron Has Arrived. Many Prisons and Jails Are Not Ready.
Experts fear “another potential tinderbox scenario” akin to the early days of the pandemic.
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Wednesday, July 28th - Warren, Maine..Residents at Maine State Prison line up for the 6:30am med call during which some patients receive buprenorphine or methadone...Philip Keith for The Marshall Project
News August 10, 2021
These Meds Prevent Overdoses. Few Federal Prisoners Are Getting Them
Three years after the First Step Act required the Bureau of Prisons to treat more people with medications for opioid addiction, only a tiny fraction are receiving them.
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Carrie Shipp shows a photo of her 21-year-old son Matthew Shipp, who is incarcerated in Texas and decided not to get vaccinated out of fear and distrust of prison medical staff.
Coronavirus April 6, 2021
As States Expand Vaccine Eligibility, Many People in Prison Still Wait for Shots
Despite CDC advice to vaccinate prisoners quickly, two-thirds of states lag behind the general population.
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Women at York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Connecticut, in 2018. The Connecticut Department of Corrections waived the $3 copay for medical visits for prisoners in March.
News November 2, 2020
Should Prisoners Have to Pay For Medical Care During a Pandemic?
Some states stop charging copays to encourage COVID-19 care.
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Yonkers Police Officer Ashley Callery hands out cards with information about social distancing to people at the park at Getty Square, Yonkers, in May.
Coronavirus June 9, 2020
Have COVID-19? Cops May Have Your Neighborhood on a “Heat Map”
Critics call high-tech maps overreach, but police say they keep officers safe.
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Santa Barbara County excluded COVID-19 cases among prisoners at Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex so it could meet California’s requirements for reopening.
Coronavirus May 27, 2020
How To Hide a COVID-19 Hotspot? Pretend Prisoners Don’t Exist
A county trying to reopen its economy wrestles with a virus outbreak in prison.
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