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.
One Davidson County inmate effectively performed the Heimlich maneuver, which cleared the obstruction and allowed the CO to breathe again
Dr. Anjali Niyogi, founder of the Formerly Incarcerated Transitions Clinic, knows the information about overdoses could save a life once the inmates reenter society
The Wayne County jail has agreed to implement processes for identifying people with disabilities when they arrive and programs to ensure access to treatment
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
Five of the inmates are being treated at hospitals outside the prison after tests confirmed the men had contracted the rare but severe type of bacterial pneumonia
About 45 San Quentin State Prison inmates are under observation for respiratory illness, although they also have not been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease
Officials have shut off water and attempt to track down the source of the bacteria that causes the disease
Joshua Dylan Anderson regularly ate food containers, his jail uniform and human waste while in custody, resulting in a bowel obstruction that took weeks to pass
Also looking at the procedures and practices of Georgia Correctional Health Care, the branch of the university that employs Nazaire and other prison medical personnel
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