Prisoners' health
Pennsylvania drops mask mandate

Jun. 28, 2021 10:37 AM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lifted its mask mandate on Monday, more than 14 months after the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf began requiring people to...

25 people in jail custody test positive for COVID-19

Jun. 23, 2021 08:30 AM EDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials confirmed Tuesday that another COVID-19 outbreak at Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail has infected 25 people in custody in the...

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Raymond Riles. Riles, the longest serving death row inmate in the U.S. was resentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 after prosecutors in Texas concluded the 71-year-old man is ineligible for execution and incompetent for retrial due to his long history of mental illness. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)
Longest serving death row inmate in US resentenced to life

By Juan A. Lozano Jun. 09, 2021 04:53 PM EDT

Licensed practical nurse Yokasta Castro, of Warwick, R.I., draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Mass. A month after every adult in the U.S. became eligible for the vaccine, a distinct geographic pattern has emerged: The highest vaccination rates are concentrated in the Northeast, while the lowest ones are mostly in the South. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Edwards ends virus restrictions, lifts schools' mask mandate

By Melinda Deslatte May. 25, 2021 03:27 PM EDT

Aaron McGlothin, union president at the Federal Correctional Institution at Mendota, stands in front of the prison during a protest against staffing shortages, near the prison entrance in Mendota, Calif., Monday, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)
Cooks, nurses guard inmates with US prisons down 6K officers

By Michael R. Sisak And Michael Balsamo May. 21, 2021 06:00 AM EDT

Governor lifting Delaware mask mandate effective next Friday

By Randall Chase May. 14, 2021 04:57 PM EDT
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Carney said Friday that he will lift Delaware’s mask-wearing mandate effective May 21 after the U.S. Centers for...

In this photo released by Department of Corrections, COVID-19 prisoners sit inside a field hospital set up at Medical Correctional Institution to treat COVID-19 inmates, in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 8, 2021. Almost 3,000 inmates incarcerated at two prisons in Thailand’s capital Bangkok have tested positive for COVID-19, the Corrections Department said Wednesday, May 12, 2021 as the Southeast Asian nation battles a virulent third wave of the coronavirus. (Department of Corrections, Thailand via AP)
COVID-19 infections surge among prisoners in Bangkok

By Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul May. 12, 2021 09:17 AM EDT

Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai, sitting wearing cap, listens as separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, standing, addresses a demonstration against the government in Srinagar, India, April 16, 2008. Sehrai, a prominent politician in Kashmir who challenged India’s rule over the disputed region for decades died Wednesday while in police custody. He was 78. (AP Photo /Mukhtar Khan)
Staunch anti-India Kashmir politician dies in police custody

By Aijaz Hussain May. 05, 2021 08:23 AM EDT

A person getting a Johnson & Johnson vaccine by a health care worker at the one-time pop-up vaccination site located 16th Street beach on the sand on Sunday, May 2, 2021 in Miami Beach. The one-time vaccination site made possible by Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson and the Florida Division of Emergency Management will administer up to 250 Johnson & Johnson vaccines. (David Santiago/Miami Herald via AP)
The Latest: Colo. governor extends statewide mask mandate

By The Associated Press May. 02, 2021 10:46 AM EDT

The penal colony with a hospital for convicts, located in Vladimir, a city 180 kilometers (110 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 19, 2021. The Russian state penitentiary service said opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be admitted to the hospital in another prison after the politician's doctor said he could be near death. Navalny is in the third week of a hunger strike. The prison service also said Monday that Navalny had agreed to take vitamin therapy. (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)
Putin foe Navalny sent to prison hospital amid hunger strike

By Daria Litvinova Apr. 19, 2021 10:06 AM EDT

FILE - This July 23, 2014, file photo, shows a state prison in Florence, Arizona. Lawyers representing Arizona prisoners said in a filing on Friday, April 16, 2021, that a third round of contempt of court fines against the state for failing to improve health care for incarcerated people could reach as high as $23 million. They said their estimate on the maximum possible fine was higher than previously thought due to what they said were their discoveries of additional instances of corrections officials not complying with a 6-year-old settlement over the issue. (AP Photo/File)
Lawyers say Arizona’s fine over prison care could reach $23M

By Jacques Billeaud Apr. 16, 2021 05:16 PM EDT

Arizona follows feds, pauses J&J vaccine due to clot reports

By Terry Tang Apr. 13, 2021 03:30 PM EDT
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona health officials urged a halt Tuesday to the administering of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, following reports...

Inmates sue over county's handling of COVID-19

Apr. 09, 2021 12:58 PM EDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than a dozen current and former inmates have sued Multnomah County over its handling of COVID-19. In federal...

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2021, file photo, a red tag hangs on a cell door, signifying an active COVID-19 case for its inhabitants at Faribault Prison, in Faribault, Minn. Fewer than 20 percent of state and federal prisoners have received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to data collected by The Marshall Project and The Associated Press. In some states, prisoners and advocates have resorted to lawsuits to get access. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, File)
Advocates: Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates

By Dave Collins Apr. 08, 2021 10:51 AM EDT

15 inmates who contracted COVID-19 at Inverness Jail sue

Apr. 06, 2021 05:25 PM EDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fifteen inmates who contracted COVID-19 while at Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail are suing the county and Sheriff Mike Reese. ...

Carrie Shipp shows a photo of her incarcerated 21-year-old son Matthew Shipp that she keep on her cell phone Friday, April 2, 2021, in Irving, Texas. Fewer than 20 percent of state and federal prisoners have received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to data collected by The Marshall Project and The Associated Press. Carrie Shipp said her son decided not to get vaccinated out of fear and distrust of prison medical staff. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
As states expand vaccines, prisoners still lack access

By Katie Park And Ariel Goodman Of The Marshall Project And Kimberlee Kruesi Of The Associated Press Apr. 06, 2021 06:01 AM EDT

Carrie Shipp shows a tattoo on her arm for her children, April 2, 2021, in Irving, Texas. Shipp, whose 21-year-old son Matthew is incarcerated at Ruben M. Torres Unit in Texas, said her son decided not to get vaccinated out of fear and distrust of prison medical staff. Fewer than 20 percent of state and federal prisoners have received a COVID-19 vaccine, according to data collected by The Marshall Project and The Associated Press. “To have your child, someone you took care of be afraid of something that would protect them… I will lose sleep over it,” Shipp said. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
As states expand vaccines, prisoners still lack access

By Katie Park And Ariel Goodman Of The Marshall Project And Kimberlee Kruesi Of The Associated Press Apr. 06, 2021 06:00 AM EDT

FILE - This July 23, 2014, file photo, shows a state prison in Florence, Arizona. Arizona corrections officials on Friday, March 26, 2021, cited the staffing and resource demands of the pandemic in trying to fend off a contempt of court fine against the state for failing to follow through on promises in a legal settlement to improve health care for inmates. Such a financial penalty would mark the third contempt fine the state has faced for noncompliance with the settlement. (AP Photo/File)
Pandemic cited by Arizona in bid to avoid contempt fine

By Jacques Billeaud Mar. 29, 2021 07:25 PM EDT

California prisons restart visitations 1 year into pandemic

Mar. 23, 2021 08:28 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California state prisons will soon resume limited in-person visits with inmates more than a year after they were halted because of...

File-This Dec. 25, 2017, file photo shows Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa. A nurse and a correctional officer at the Anamosa State Penitentiary in eastern Iowa died Tuesday, March 23, 2021, after an inmate attacked multiple staff members and other inmates, state officials said. (Liz Martin/The Gazette via AP, File)
Nurse, officer dead after inmate attack at Iowa prison

By Ryan J. Foley Mar. 23, 2021 03:34 PM EDT