Living Unit C, or the South Cell House, is seen in September 2015 at the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa.

The Due Process Continuity of Care Act would allow individuals to retain Medicaid coverage during pretrial incarceration, ...

The “big, beautiful bill” that passed Congress is a raw deal for working-class Americans. It should be called the ...

The decision in Yellowhammer Fund v. Marshall affirmed the rights of advocacy groups to assist those in need without fear of prosecution.

The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will close its doors July 22.

Pritzker also signed House Bill 3019, known as the Healthcare Protection Expansion Act. Among other things, it prohibits state-regulated health plans from requiring prior authorization for outpatient ...

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55.2 billion state budget for 2026 late Saturday, with new taxes on sports bets and nicotine, but no transit funding.

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education investigate university-run prison health care systems in Texas, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

In my Missouri prison, we suffer from a lack of basic health care. I know of many people who were ill last fall. In some of the housing wings, coughing, diarrhea and vomiting occurred too often. At ...

Illinois has erased another $220 million in medical debt for thousands of residents as Gov. JB Pritzker continues to make progress on a medical debt relief program promising to cancel $1 billion ...

Illinois lawmakers and prison guards are ramping up efforts to ban physical mail into state prisons, blaming synthetic-drug-sprayed paper for a rise in overdoses behind bars.