Luzerne County is seeking a voting system specialist at $48,000 annually, according to an online posting.

Cambria County Prison officials discovered that county taxpayers have been mistakenly billed in excess by the prison’s contracted medical care provider for some inmate opioid addiction medications.

The Clarion County Prison Board is seeking approval from the Clarion County commissioners to hire an additional nurse in response to the need for adequate medical services for ...

A second round of grants totaling $2.3 million is headed to jails across the state — including the Lorain County Jail — to help sheriffs prioritize addiction treatment for inmates, Attorney General ...

A round of grants, $2.3 million, is headed to jails across the state to help sheriffs prioritize addiction treatment for inmates. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that these current ...

I lost my father to a drug overdose. For years, I believed people like him needed to be punished. Here's why I was drawn to ...

The lack of a continuous quality improvement program means that ‘critical errors go unaddressed’ in the jail system, one doctor says.

yet fewer than half of U.S. jails offer jail-based MAT or Medication Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment, creating a critical care gap and a key opportunity to address a nationwide public health ...

Weber Human Services and the Weber County Sheriff’s Office for a grant-funded medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, program at the jail. Medication-assisted treatment is described as an ...

Although for the past few years the St. Louis County Jail has used a Medication Assisted Treatment Program. This provides inmates suffering from an opioid addiction to get the help they need to ...

Though more than two-thirds of Ohio jails provide medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, the investigation found that not everyone incarcerated in Ohio jails received the treatment.

These statistics encouraged Orange County to become the first county in Florida to offer medication-assisted treatment inside its local jail, but Hall admitted that a person’s success in ...