Correctional Healthcare
Correctional Healthcare is critical to prison and jail management, ensuring inmates receive necessary medical, dental, and mental health services. This section provides articles that explore the challenges, best practices, and innovations in delivering Correctional Healthcare. Topics include managing chronic illnesses, addressing mental health needs, and navigating legal and ethical considerations in inmate care. Understanding Correctional Healthcare is essential for professionals committed to providing quality care in a correctional setting. For further reading, explore related topics on COVID and its impact on rehabilitation and facility management.
The Bureau of Prisons reforms include updating suicide prevention protocols and using data-driven strategies to reduce deaths in custody
The grants allow the state “to invest in programs that improve reentry outcomes and reduce the likelihood that a person will reoffend in the future”
Jeremy Bean, the warden of High Desert State Prison, said that there had been instances of failures to provide medical care
Monroe County is the first in the state to reach full programming in treating inmates with opioid addiction
Turn Key Health’s CEO said improvements had been made, including the jail administrator’s efforts to address detention staffing shortages
The most common mistake made when treating withdrawal in a jail is not to treat the withdrawal at all!
Turn Key Health gave the jail trust a one-month deadline to increase the number of detention officers at the overcrowded 13-story facility
The judge made her ruling after reviewing dozens of declarations submitted on behalf of disabled inmates
The St. Louis City Justice Center has no showers for people in wheelchairs, which, according to the suit, violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act
The development of highly effective vaccines against the COVID-19 virus is an astounding feat of scientific innovation
Dr. Nikki Johnson is the Denver Sheriff Department’s first chief of mental health services and is charged with improving in-custody mental health services
The screening of inmates is possibly one of the most important assessments conducted in correctional settings
The expansion plan will give access to the program for any MDOC resident identified as medically appropriate
The roadmap offers insight into how officials can increase access to medication-based treatments inside facilities as well as upon release
The $421,880 fine against the CDCR is by far the largest penalty assessed against any entity in a single citation
The inspector general found that pressure to meet self-imposed deadlines led authorities to ignore warnings from health officials
An outbreak was declared after several suspected cases were identified at Parnall Correctional Facility
Many of the women had been deported or released from immigration custody after the allegations first emerged
Participants will receive mental health treatment and counseling while residing in a work release center
Facilities must have a medically based response plan to address this problem
COVID-19 has spread widely in jails and prisons. What vaccine policy options do we have to arrest the spread?
The Behavior Care Center is reshaping how the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office helps people who are having psychotic episodes
The order applies specifically to the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center
The new service will be bolstered by a grant-funded mental health program that will have a new staff member helping inmates with mental health and opioid addiction
By rededicating existing space, the largest expenditure would be in professional staff to provide treatment.
Since March, 171 federal inmates have died of the coronavirus
Between mid-August and mid-October, the cumulative number of inmate infections more than tripled and total staff cases more than doubled
Correctional leaders should commit themselves and their staff to apply lessons learned from the challenges of 2020 into policies and emergency planning
The rollout will depend on the quantity of doses made available to the state
The suit alleged a culture of noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and a pattern of discrimination impacting inmates with disabilities
Healthcare will remain the largest uncontrollable expense in corrections — COVID-19 has only exacerbated this trend
Roughly one-quarter of MDOC staff and almost half of people incarcerated during the pandemic have been infected
The coronavirus impacted all aspects of correctional facility operations – from staffing to officer wellness
