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A third of people held in federal prisons have received the vaccine already. But federal inmates make up just 10% of people incarcerated in the U.S. For others, vaccine timing is uncertain.
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Prisons, jails and detention centers have much higher coronavirus case and fatality rates than the general public. But attitudes toward inmates mean bank tellers may get vaccinated before they do.
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The federal lawsuit is an effort to get the state to improve prison conditions after negotiations with officials failed to result in voluntary change.
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As the economies of the Ohio Valley gradually reopen from the pandemic closures, state officials are still reporting hundreds of coronavirus cases each…
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The Kentucky Senate has easily approved legislation redefining incarceration procedures for pregnant inmates. The legislation includes a provision aimed…
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A southern Illinois judge has again barred Governor Pat Quinn from going forward with his plan to close two prisons. Circuit Judge Charles Cavaness cited…
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In rural counties, state-run prisons are often major employers. And, after state budget cuts and reforms in the penal code, they remain an important part…