Correctional Healthcare

Technology upgrade for Pennsylvania's smallest jail brings the "technology end of the jail 25 years into the present"

Anthony “Jack” Sully, 79, died of natural causes at a medical facility outside of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center

Assistant inspector general estimates DOC mailroom workers only catch about half of the drugs entering prisons through the mail

According to the report, “in addition to any potential human failures, staffing shortages and pressures, policy deficiencies and ambiguities, and historical internal practices were chief contributing factors"

A heat illness prevention plan for the state's 30 prisons includes increased access to water, ice, fans, portable cooling units

Union president for COs jokes that "everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure

All off-site medical transports will require two Marion County deputies and murder suspects will wear red clothing to indicate their potential danger

Broome County Sheriff says the agreement establishes “clear LGBTI Guidelines, which were previously nonexistent”

Paul Flores, hospitalized in serious condition, was sentenced in March for 25 years to life for the 1996 killing

Former inmate tested positive for Legionnaires' disease two-days after transfer from county prison to state prison

Sheriff Patrick Labat says the jail will follow "our normal practices” when former President Trump arrives for booking

COs are monitoring people inside the unairconditioned housing units for heat-related health problems

More than half of the employees at Coffee Creek feel it is “not a psychologically safe facility for staff,” the researchers wrote

COs suffer from depression, PTSD and suicide at a higher rate than the average population; part of the revamp plan is to improve the prison staff's experience

The number of those in jail who died from drug or alcohol intoxication increased nearly 400% from 2000 to 2019