At the Ninilchik Community Clinic on Alaska's rural Kenai peninsula this summer, Dr. Sarah Spencer stood next to a patient lying on an exam table, and swiped her belly with alcohol. The patient was ...

A life-threatening condition called sepsis kills hundreds of people in American jails and prisons each year, a USA TODAY investigation has found, but inmates with a history of drug use are at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For those who have never been incarcerated, it's hard to know what going to jail or prison is REALLY like. Sure, we've all seen ...

Nicholas Jacobson had just been accused of murder when a raging infection nearly killed him. Left untreated for two weeks in a California jail, sepsis drove him into a coma as his organs started to ...

Suicide is a leading cause of death in American jails. According to federal data analyzed by the Marshall Project, nearly 900 people died by suicide in jails across the country during a recent ...