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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.
By Beth Schwartzapfel and Keri Blakinger
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.
By Beth Schwartzapfel
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.
By Katie Park, Ariel Goodman and Kimberlee Kruesi
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.
By Michelle Pitcher
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.
By Simone Weichselbaum
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.
By Abbie VanSickle
Life Inside April 8, 2020
I Was at Rikers While Coronavirus Spread. Getting Out Was Just as Surreal.
“My family is my family. I am used to our little quirks. But I am still getting used to what's going on outside.”
By Donald Kagan as told to Nicole Lewis
Cary Johnson is a corrections officer at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, Mich.
Life Inside April 1, 2020
As a Mom Working In a Prison, I Worry About Bringing Coronavirus Home
“I tell my husband to keep my son in another room, while I put my uniform in a trash bag and take a long shower.”
By Cary Johnson as told to Maurice Chammah
Women participate in a group therapy session at the detox unit at the Middleton House of Correction in Essex County, Mass.
News January 29, 2019
When Going to Jail Means Giving Up The Meds That Saved Your Life
How the Americans With Disabilities Act could change the way the nation’s jails and prisons treat addiction.
By Beth Schwartzapfel
Andrew Butler, who needed psychiatric care, was transferred from a hospital to a prison last year in New Hampshire.
News July 30, 2018
Sent to a Hospital, But Locked in Prison
Despite years of criticism, New Hampshire has no place but prison for the dangerously mentally ill.
By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge and Ashley Nerbovig
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