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 hope is with the continued treatment behind bars at Middleton Jail, inmates won’t want to seek drugs when they are released
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
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The state is facing the prospect of millions of dollars in fines over its failure to carry out reforms of its medical system
A judge has rescinded his program that would reduce inmates’ jail time if they voluntarily underwent birth control procedures
The potential flaw in the proposed medical-furlough law is that it depends entirely on Medicaid
General Sessions Judge Sam Benninfield says he hopes to prevent children being born under the influence of drugs
The program, launched two years ago by seven inmates serving lengthy sentences, involves an eight-week curriculum and outside speakers
The prison hospital houses close to 600 inmates who need medical and long-term care
Tests have been done in hopes of finding the source of illnesses at the Franklin Medical Center in Columbus
After the CDCR was ordered to improve its medical and mental health care facilities, the agency embraced eco-friendly construction
Inmates sued the state DOC in 2014, saying untreated illnesses and lengthy lockdowns have led to worsening conditions, violence and suicides
The state’s psychiatric care of inmates is so inadequate that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge ruled
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Correctional institutions are faced with being the sole health care provider for the nation’s most ill people with the least amount of financial resources
The officer was treated for a stab wound to the shoulder
DOC attorneys say inmates waited too long to complain, so prison officials shouldn’t be held in contempt of court for violating a settlement in a decades-old class action lawsuit
James Edwards Rodgers was attacked by two inmates with makeshift knives at the Bullock Correctional Facility
Nearly 5,400 inmates at the Pennsylvania DOC have been diagnosed with the disease
The lawsuit alleges the jail and its employees deprived Michael Sabbie of his medications, denied him adequate medical care and ignored his serious medical needs
The officers are expected to make full recoveries
The decision could determine if there’s a special session on prison issues
Studies have shown that promoting education and job training for inmates can reduce recidivism and save taxpayer dollars
Ricky Lynn Hall, who had a long history of mental health problems, was being treated at a hospital when he stole a sharp-edged object and took a medical student hostage
Judge Jorge Alonso ruled the lawsuit could include all inmates with serious medical needs in every prison in the state
The bill would mandate jails to share information on the availability of health care services, proper nutrition, and other procedures protecting pregnant inmates
An inmate’s family attorney says the killings cast a “bright light on just how bad it is to be a mentally ill inmate”
The bill requires county jails to give inmates feminine hygiene products for free
Dipak Desai was convicted of murder and 26 other charges in the largest hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada history
In addition to their usual daily responsibilities, COs assigned to medical housing units are also acting as a substitute nurse or physician
The cost of health care for ill inmates is almost three times more than a healthy inmate or the average person on the street
The legislation was sparked by a decision last month by the DOC to privatize the jobs of 124 union nurses working in state prisons
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