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.
As it works to improve prison healthcare, ODOC is contracting nurses, increasing off-site medical trips and holding town halls with inmates to address healthcare gaps
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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
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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
The report called for COs and incarcerated people to receive early access to the COVID-19 vaccine
A state watchdog report claims corrections officials were slow, confused and ineffective in their response
The Justice Department and lawyers for several of the women agreed that immigration authorities wouldn’t carry out any deportations until mid-January
About 3% of testing across the state has been done at the Department of Corrections
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