In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

California’s parole board is using unreliable drug test results in decisions about releasing incarcerated people despite flaws that were exposed in a rash of false positives two years ago, more than a ...

Legislators told an Alabama Department of Corrections official Wednesday that they were concerned by reports that inmates were not getting access to rehabilitation programs in a timely manner. Members ...

One in nine people in prisons globally have a history of injecting drug use and their risk of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis is up to 45 times higher than in the general population. Yet access ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs is a busy man behind bars. The disgraced rapper, 56, is enrolled in an intensive drug treatment program and working in the chapel at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in ...

Second Judicial District Drug Court marks 25 years and 300+ graduates, using treatment, accountability and community support to offer an alternative to prison for people battling addiction.

Researchers and advocates are calling for needle exchange programs to be introduced in prisons to help combat the risks of ...