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.
From body cameras to healthcare access, the new year will bring key policy shifts to improve corrections operations
Prescription drugs such as suboxone, Vivitrol or methadone, which block the effects of opioids, are often part of Medication-Assisted Treatment programs
Learn how inmate privacy violations, as officers observed an inmate’s naked body during childbirth, led to a lawsuit in Brown v. Dickey
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
The 2016 attack is now the subject of a lawsuit that raises serious questions about the safety of medical personnel working in the state’s prisons
The lawsuit said the inmate was attacked while hiding in his cell from known gang members during the April riot
A court said prison officials aren’t deliberately indifferent to a transgender inmate who says her medical treatment is so poor it violates her constitutional rights
Some experts say buprenorphine and methadone are the best way to combat overdose deaths, but the treatments are rarely used behind bars
A report said the deaths could’ve been avoided if the sheriff’s department and medical staff paid more attention to health issues
One official says prisons effectively have become mental health facilities because so many inmates need treatment
The state was also fined $1.4 million for failing to adequately improve health care for inmates
Retention remains an issue. Many candidates are fearful of prisons, and most of the state’s prisons are in rural areas
An inmate is suing the DOC for denying him gallbladder surgery because he was close to his release date
Staff complacency, supervision problems, and outdated security policies are among problems identified at Ohio’s highest-security prisons following a brutal attack on a CO
The costs come as the state struggles to find and retain qualified nurses to care for the aging prison population
Frustrated lawmakers are quizzing officials and advocates for mentally ill inmates on the potential costs of improvements to behavioral health care in the DOC
An ex-inmate alleged that most of her colon had to be removed after prison officials and the state’s health care provider ignored her requests for medication
The watchdog report also echoes cries for a comprehensive review of the state systems that have filled the prison with young people battling mental illnesses
The number of senior citizens behind bars is exploding, costing New York State taxpayers up to $240,000 a year for prisoners with serious medical needs
An increase of inmate hospital stays has Cambria County Prison corrections officers working numerous overtime shifts
Until more elderly prisoners are discharged, correctional facilities will be forced to spend more resources on serving this aging population
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