Correctional Healthcare

Take a uniquely personal behind-the-scenes look at a corrections nurse in action, and hear in her words what she loves about being a Corizon nurse. From minor ailments to chronic medical conditions, Corizon nurses have the unique opportunity to see and care for a broad range of health concerns and play an active role in educating a patient population that, in general, has likely not had previous access to healthcare.

Under federal court order to reduce overcrowding in state prisons, California is now releasing thousands of prisoners or transferring them to county jails. But the rapidly aging and dying prisoners confined to state prison hospices are often left behind. As many as 3,300 inmates in the U.S. die in prison every year.

Traces of uranium above safe levels have shown up in a Colorado prison's water supply, forcing the DOC to truck in water from an outside source.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is shifting thousands of inmates in and out of state prisons, due to concerns over a fungal infection known as Valley Fever.

The mother of an inmate who died after he was taken into custody has sued the Hamilton County Justice Center in Ohio.

Any given day, more than 1300 inmates are behind bars at Mobile, Alabama's Metro Jail. Many prisoners come with health problems, from mental illness and high blood pressure to the common cold.

Florida prisoners are getting their own cancer center and, for them, it's totally free. But don't worry, taxpayers weren't on the hook for the new facility. The Community Cancer Center of North Florida paid for everything.