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.
Most incarcerated people report mental illness — remodeling and funded behavioral health services can reduce risk, liability and deaths in custody
Fragmented jail healthcare creates confusion, gaps in care and liability — full-service partners offer structure and protection
The Third Circuit said FCI Fairton’s grievance system was sufficient and denied Rolando Muniz’s constitutional and disability claims
Inmates are adept at turning whatever materials are at hand into improvised weapons – the ongoing challenge for corrections officials is to detect these weapons
The inmate had just returned from work release when he collapsed in the shower
The devices include both free educational content and paid services like music and family messaging
We need to have a plan in place for not if, but when we encounter someone who has overdosed in the booking or holding areas
The prison’s medical director lacked board certification and had never completed an approved residency
A new sheriff’s department pilot program giving inmates access to Narcan appears to be working as intended
Starting in July, mothers and their babies will be placed in a community-based program for up to a year
The hearings are the next step in a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program and others
The woman has been taking methadone for her opioid use disorder for the past two years
Fears have been weighing heavily on staff for more than a year now, undermining their health and well-being, and most likely affecting their job performance
The doctors said they support medication-assisted treatment for inmates, but they have concerns over CDCR’s implementation
“The arbiters and inspectors could not have been more pleased with the care that the inmates are receiving,” said the warden
Kenny Williams died of metastasized breast cancer in June 2019 after DOC failed to provide treatment
It is critical to communicate early and often with employees about safety and ongoing planning
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
