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The Biden administration is asking states to use Medicaid funds to cover opioid addiction treatment in correctional facilities, where many people suffer intense cravings and withdrawal. The Biden administration this [...]

Dec. 16In Pennsylvania, a sheriff's office has a mixed bag of responsibilities, but they all come down to one simple role. Whether a deputy is serving a warrant or delivering [...]

Aug. 08--Prison's evolving role: Drug treatment is becoming an increasing issue at the Westmoreland County Prison, where officials estimate that nearly three-quarters of the inmates require some drug-detox help. The [...]

Anyone who visits a prison these days might be shocked to see what looks more like a nursing home with bars and metal detectors. Prisoners put away years ago under [...]

Byline: Monitor Editors Cape Times / Cape town, South AfricaDenying a visa to Dalai Lama is submitting to China's demands 'I find it difficult to understand why granting a visa [...]

May 27--Nauseating: Allegheny Valley Hospital in Harrison had to deal with an outbreak of the norovirus in its mental health unit a week ago. This 'stomach bug' probably won't kill [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Tex. -- IN August, right around the time when the Texas summer heat was at its brutal worst, the state's prison system finalized a bid to replace its aging [...]

CHINO, Calif. -- The gymnasium in the state prison here is hardly glamorous, just some concrete walls and a couple of basketball hoops. But a year ago, those hoops were [...]

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- The first thing one notices about the new prison here is the smell, or rather the absence of it. Helmand Central Prison does not reek of [...]

Byline: JESSICA VANDER VELDE; Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- On Friday, the Sheriff's Office essentially shuttered Hillsborough County's oldest standing jail. All inmates, except those just booked, are now held [...]

Four photographs of shackled and hooded terror prisoners from Afghanistan, apparently taken as a souvenir by a U.S. soldier, were mysteriously made public yesterday and brought renewed allegations of human-rights [...]

You can make him shake with fear, glow with pride or weep with exhaustion. You can deprive him of sleep for days, threaten the lives of family members or offer [...]

NEW YORK -- Nabil al-Marabh, the former Toronto resident who was arrested last September as a major terrorism suspect, says he is innocent and has been mistreated while in U.S. [...]

Justice Behind Walls: Human Rights in Canadian Prisons By Michael Jackson Douglas & McIntyre, 636 pages, $50 Outsiders looking in have a range of opinions on Canada's prison system. But [...]

OTTAWA -- Canadian soldiers will continue to turn captives in Afghanistan over to the United States, the Department of National Defence said, despite Britain's decision not to do so in [...]

WASHINGTON -- Despite the mounting unease of Canada and other allies, Washington confirmed its controversial position yesterday: Captives held in cages at Guantanamo Bay don't merit Geneva Conventions prisoner-of-war status. [...]

Well, there's one thing you can say for Jean Chretien. No, we take it back. There isn't. His outburst in the House of Commons on Wednesday was inexcusable, even in [...]

OTTAWA -- U.S. President George W. Bush's disregard for the legal niceties of the Geneva Conventions apparently is shared by Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Yesterday, Mr. Chretien brushed aside concerns [...]

OTTAWA -- Canadian troops in Afghanistan will, for the time being, hand over any prisoners they take to U.S. forces, despite fears in the Liberal government that the Americans may [...]

OTTAWA -- The federal government has doubts about whether the United States is fully complying with international law in its handling of prisoners captured in Afghanistan, Deputy Prime Minister John [...]

Lost in this week's kerfuffle over Defence Minister Art Eggleton is that Parliament, for the first time since the government agreed to send troops overseas, had a chance to 'take [...]

What The Globe and Mail took to be an agency photo of American GIs manhandling some Afghan prisoners has proved to have quite a life. The GIs turned out to [...]

OTTAWA -- An embarrassed Art Eggleton revised his story yesterday, admitting he knew about the taking of prisoners by Canadian troops in Afghanistan four days earlier than he had previously [...]

OTTAWA -- The Liberal government has landed Canada in the middle of an international storm over U.S. treatment of Afghan prisoners, prompting one expert to suggest Canada has violated the [...]