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.
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
Overdose is a leading cause of death in jail; drug testing at intake can detect fatal levels of drug intoxication and help connect people to life-saving treatment on day one.
They claim prison officials and co-workers labeled them ‘lazy’ or harassed them with derogatory names
The bill would give the wrongly convicted temporary access to state health insurance and transitional services
Justice of the Peace Rodney Burr gave authorities two weeks to move Wright to California
Concealing a corpse was previously a Class G felony
Prosecutors accused the inmate of expressing false remorse in hopes of gaining a reduction in his life prison
Centurion’s news release said the company will serve 70K inmates
California allows for the release of some dying inmates who are deemed not to pose a threat
Lack of support, compensation, exposure to disease and no sick leave are contributing factors to issues cited by the union
Though some prisons used telemedicine as early as the 1980s, its use has dramatically increased with technology
The state closed its large, long-term psychiatric hospitals but filled its prisons with a similar population
Jason Alexander pleaded guilty Tuesday to promoting a sexual performance by a child
The convicted murderer grabbed national headlines in 2014 after the state blocked him from donating his kidney
The proposal would allow copayments of up to $10 for every self-initiated, non-emergency visit
What can we do if we find ourselves stressed out?
Police say it was a scheme to obtain prescription narcotics, synthetic marijuana, tobacco and pornography
Whether a fight in the yard, a fall down the steps in the tiers, or a take-down that gets out of hand, blunt trauma is a common emergency situation in a correctional facility
The incident is under investigation by the state police and the sheriff’s department
All three deaths are the subject of lawsuits filed last year against the detention center
Should inmates be trusted to watch other inmates on suicide watch? If so, what’s next?
High blood pressure and a history of stimulant drug use contributed to his death
Administering naloxone reverses effects of opiate overdose
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
A dizzying array of revelations has called into question just who is telling the truth and who is lying
The question of how active addictions are treated at the prison went unanswered by a panel of community leaders
New proposal would save the state $156M in mental health, prisoner health, and indigent care costs
County officials, however, maintain they were already working on jail improvements well before inmate’s death
