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 effort follows a rise in suicides among corrections officers and aims to equip officers with lifesaving resources
Christy Galindo, beaten with her radio, suffered significant injuries but expressed hope for the juveniles’ futures from her hospital bed
The Kentucky DOC requested the opinion from the state’s attorney general as the agency amends its administrative regulations regarding medical care for inmates
The ruling comes after weeks of testimony by inmates, officials and experts about the lack of access to soap, hand sanitizer and routine testing
Kettle Moraine is the Wisconsin prison with the highest number of COVID-19 cases among inmates since the pandemic began in March
The law applies only if the state does not have “management or security concerns”
The allegations against the doctor were first revealed in a complaint filed last week by a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center
The women’s lack of consent or knowledge raises severe legal and ethical issues, lawyers and medical experts said
Holly Barlow-Austin’s family claims jail staff neglected her care and ignored her pleas for help as her health deteriorated and she went blind
A nurse claims a gynecologist, who she called the “uterus collector,” was performing “mass hysterectomies”
Inmates claim the facility offers inadequate treatment and medication, and often punishes them with extended solitary confinement or excessive force
The filed complaint includes questions surrounding hysterectomies, shredded medical records and refusals to test detainees for COVID-19
The judge is giving the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation five months to get the body-worn devices into use
The monitoring plan is aimed at making sure the ADOC follows the remedial orders
As of August 20, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice resumed limited family visitation to facilities that have no active COVID-19 cases
The decision found officials didn’t act with deliberate indifference to inmates’ medical needs and prioritizing the sickest patients for treatment was reasonable
Katrina Pinkerton described the department’s “serious neglect” in managing the spread of COVID-19 at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in an email
Marlin Gusman ceded control in 2016, amid complaints that progress was too slow at improving medical care, violence, drug contraband and suicide attempts
The rare action follows a multiyear investigation into the practices at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail
Nearly one-third of public safety personnel do not get a department-issued face mask, plus other key findings from nearly 4,000 survey responses
The prison must rank inmates by their health risks and identify candidates for early release
Johnny Avila Jr., 62, was sentenced to death in 1996 for two counts of first-degree murder
Under the ruling, the state must come up with a plan to vacate at least 100 beds in each prison across California in the next month
The greatest risk to jail inmates is not new inmates with COVID, but deputies or other jail employees catching COVID in the community and bringing it to the jail
The state prison system has come under fire for what some call a “horribly botched” handling of the pandemic
Lawyers said prison officials haven’t provided inmates hand sanitizer, sufficient testing, contact tracing or social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19
While no laws were broken, the DA said a jail isn’t an appropriate environment for inmates with mental illness
The massive outbreak prompted the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to set up an incident command center at the prison
Two new studies show that jails can contribute enormously to coronavirus case totals outside their walls
Six states now have infection rates higher than one of every 10 inmates
“It’s a very unique case and very rare,” said a Spokane Regional Health District spokesperson
The Manhattan jurist has allowed inmates to proceed with a lawsuit in their quest to improve conditions at the facility
Health experts warned prison medical officials two weeks ago to cut the prison’s population by at least half
