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 court was also highly critical of an alleged unwritten cost-cutting jail policy that caused delays in sending detainees to the hospital when necessary
The report identifies several operational and managerial deficiencies that created unsafe conditions before and at the time of a number of the deaths
Emails reveal that Wellpath’s trauma costs in Georgia were over double those in other states where it offers prison healthcare
Department of Justice has been investigating a range of alleged crimes at the facility
Inmates argued that the secrecy law is unconstitutional because they want information on the drugs’ makers and suppliers
Supervisors chose to contract with MEND because they believed the company’s expanded services were worth the additional cost
Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle will get the two additional nurses he has sought for his jail staff, under a tentative budget decision
The Michigan Department of Corrections estimates that the bill could affect 60 to 100 inmates
Less than 10 percent of those who have taken the drug, Vivitrol, have returned to jail
The ACLU said Wednesday’s settlement requires the Sheriff’s Office to offer the examinations as an option for women up to age 55
Health officials are disinfecting the Alamosa County Jail to kill mites being blamed for an outbreak of scabies
The finding is the second setback for the state’s efforts to regain control of the prison medical system
Utah state prison officials are recommending that a 79-year-old woman serving a prison sentence in her husband’s shooting death be released to a nursing home
California prison officials are setting the first standards for which transgender inmates should receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery
the prosecution elicited this testimony on Yale’s suicide attempts as evidence of his “consciousness of guilt”
In 2011, biking advocates from the nonprofit group Gearing Up persuaded prison administrators to let them bring in bikes to teach indoor cycling
David Stojcevski died while in custody at the Macomb County Jail while serving 30 days for a careless driving ticket that he couldn’t pay a fine for
Howard County has recently seen an increase in heroin use and overdoses, primarily among white men and women between the ages of 18 and 30
Whether to continue methadone treatments in jail is a clinical decision that is a balancing act between two conflicting principles
Whether through prescription drug abuse or IV heroin, opiate addiction is at epidemic proportions
Inmates in the Albany County jail who have struggled to overcome heroin addiction will be the first to live in a special, intensive treatment unit
Follow expert recommendations for correctional officers to quickly care for rapid bleeding or airway obstruction
Inmates are experiencing mild diarrhea, and officials are working to determine the cause
Here are the answers to many questions you may have if an inmate ever asks or demands a copy of their medical records while incarcerated in your jail
Prison healthcare provider Corizon accused of skimping to save money
Officials: Co-pays were not cost effective and placed an undue burden on jail staff
Incident is another example of dysfunction in St. Louis County’s small jails and police departments
One inmate has figured out how he can somewhat control where he is housed; how would you handle this scenario before his behavior spreads and affects all inmates in the facility?
As heroin use rises across the U.S., jails are receiving more addicts
A Cincinnati-based prisoners’ rights group alleged inmate Gregory Stamper was in severe pain from damage to his nervous system but had been refused medication by Dr. Myron Shank to help ease the pain
Hundreds of inmates at a state prison in northern Arizona have gotten ill in the past 48 hours
Heroin use by young adults has more than doubled in the past decade as the drug became cheaper, more potent and readily available
