Most of us have probably never thought too much about how inmates receive medical care. Megan (@megandesmars) has been a ...

Current and former employees at Jefferson City Correctional Center say the nursing shortage is causing unrest. They blame the ...

ALBANY — When New York correction officers attack prisoners in infirmaries — as has happened dozens of times in the past 15 years — it is often nurses who must document and treat the resulting ...

If a nurse makes a medical error that causes your loved one to get sick or die, should she be held criminally liable and go to prison? It’s a question at the center ...

CHEYENNE - Two former Wyoming State Penitentiary nurses claim they were fired because they complained about inadequate staffing and training at the Rawlins prison for men. Karen Bedwell and Debra Long ...

JUNEAU — Nearly nine months since criminal charges were filed against nine Waupun Correctional Institution staff members in connection with two deaths at the prison, trial dates for the first of the ...

A criminal who had flings with a prison officer and a jail nurse at the same time is now wanted by police. Harri Pullen, 27, is on the run after leaving a Cwmbran hospital where he was taken on ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A former nurse who is in a California prison for her role in a patient’s death will soon be eligible to be released from custody. Last September, a San Diego judge sentenced ...

More than 30 people with dangerous but treatable ailments — infections, obstructed bowels and asthma attacks — died in the ...

According to the lawyer of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, a Navy nurse refused to force feed inmates on a hunger strike, The Miami Herald reported Tuesday. “There was a recent instance of a medical ...

A Michigan nurse who admitted to draining fentanyl vials and replacing the liquid while working in a Detroit emergency room ...

When Steven Caldwell-Bey wasn't able to get a regular refill for his blood thinners, he began taking one pill a day instead of two to stretch them out. The problem, he said, is that it's been ...