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.
Correctional Officer Becky Swendsen and Baxter are now a therapy dog team, available to offer support to MDOC staff
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The inmate alleged that he soiled himself and was ridiculed
Participants agree to a two-year diversion program that focuses on treatment and recovery instead of jail time
All the detainees resumed eating voluntarily
Right now, those who are accepted into the program are assigned a probation officer
The sheriff’s office had Narcan for years, but it was only available to jail nurses so they could administer it
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The question of how active addictions are treated at the prison went unanswered by a panel of community leaders
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County officials, however, maintain they were already working on jail improvements well before inmate’s death
The contract is the first real promise that county officials have seen for putting the minimum-security jail to good use
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The inmate had been suffering from severe chronic pulmonary disease
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
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Whether to continue methadone treatments in jail is a clinical decision that is a balancing act between two conflicting principles
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