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.
Richmond Lenox EMS states that the state corrections department’s former healthcare provider owes $134,000
The change would make Kentucky one of five states in the U.S. to offer state prisoners Medicaid coverage beginning 60 days before their release
One Davidson County inmate effectively performed the Heimlich maneuver, which cleared the obstruction and allowed the CO to breathe again
From inmate mental healthcare to officer recruitment and retention, the corrections profession faced many challenges in 2018
Five years ago, nearly 200 elderly lifers were released from prison en masse under jury instructions that were found unconstitutional in the case Unger v. Maryland
The county will essentially create a new health division for its four correctional facilities, adding five full-time nurses, three mental health professionals and other positions
The nurse claims her firing was retaliation for reporting incomplete blood pressure exams, “improper sticks” and medication errors
Jail officials have long struggled to move inmates, some with serious mental health issues, to medical appointments
Treatment, which will begin with the most advanced cases, will extend to everyone with hepatitis C in prison by 2022
Funding is available for trace detection machines, Narcan kits and data-sharing technology to document problems in your jurisdiction
Cuyahoga County’s top jail official resigned late Wednesday, just months after six inmates died in a four-month span
The prison’s pharmacist and the DOC’s chief medical officer “explained that they did not understand why [the specified medication] would be used in this context,” the lawsuit said
In an effort to improve chronic health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, officials worked with a dietitian to retool the menus
Three inmates at Jess Dunn Correctional Center overdosed on synthetic opioids and were revived by medical staff
Disability advocates call the practice a violation of due rights
In 2011, Wisconsin spent more to incarcerate people than it did to educate children, he said
The doctor says he was retaliated against after he warned that conditions at San Quentin State Prison would endanger inmates
The new initiative fills a gap in the services now offered to inmates and those on probation, and comes at no cost to the county
Officials say the cost would be offset by safer prisons, fewer drug-smuggling gangs, and fewer addicted inmates cycling back to communities
The four defendants are among 18 inmates charged in the riot in which one CO was and three other staffers were held hostage
The prison has faced previous criticism and lawsuits related to alleged overcrowding and unhealthy conditions
A paraplegic inmate testified that conditions were so foul in one of the infirmaries at Louisiana State Penitentiary that he couldn’t wait to return to the prison’s general population
Inmates have suffered unnecessary pain and suffering, exacerbation of existing conditions, permanent disability, disfigurement and even death, the lawsuit alleges
Several healthcare officials at the jail raised concern that the facility does not provided enough medical personnel to treat inmates
Jurors ruled the inmate’s rights were not violated when he was never taken outdoors during permanent stays at the infirmary in three state prisons from 2011 to 2016
States cannot withhold potentially life-saving but expensive medications from prison inmates who have chronic hepatitis C, a judge ruled
The provider, Correct Care Solutions, has faced criticism over its staffing levels and quality of care
Southern West Virginia has been battling an outbreak of Hepatitis A that began in San Diego and has landed in the Charleston-Huntington area
New program will offer services including 12-step programs, employment counseling, mental health services
Adding more licensed mental health professionals at the Volusia County Branch Jail is a prime concern
Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Correction Dir. Gary Mohr said that Ohio’s prison system needs its own mental-health hospital to treat inmates
The lawsuit estimates a third of the prison systems’ approximately 19,000 inmates could have chronic hepatitis C
In the past year, there have been 159 cases of prisoners dealing with varying degrees of mental illness, ranging from acute to chronic
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