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.
Focusing on her experience working in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a female psychologist gives an account of the world inside the system
Weinstein has been in and out of Bellevue Hospital since returning to Rikers Island in April after his 2020 rape and sexual assault convictions were overturned for a new trial
The hope is with the continued treatment behind bars at Middleton Jail, inmates won’t want to seek drugs when they are released
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
Higher cost but more coverage, especially on weekends, and improved access to mental health care
Hastings leaders have vowed to help find workers to staff a proposed behavioral health treatment center for prison inmates, if it were placed in the south-central Nebraska city
It was unclear how the unnamed 63-year-old Rikers Island jail complex inmate, who had underlying health conditions, contracted the disease
California is first in the nation to agree to pay for a transgender inmate’s sex reassignment operation
Finding legal places to live for sex offenders, especially those who require medical treatment, is a growing problem nationally
A physician assistant and supervising nurse were fired and another nurse was demoted after an investigation into an inmate’s death
Three Jefferson County corrections officers are being credited with saving the life of a choking female inmate during breakfast on Monday morning
Middletown Town supervisor said a local resolution arguing against the shackling ban “made me sick to my stomach”
Terminally ill man’s family is fighting a 7-year prison sentence so he can spend his last days at home
Doctor linked to the questionable deaths of at least nine female inmates has been placed on administrative leave pending a review of his conduct
Complaint alleges Danielle Lawrence’s rights were violated when the jail did not treat her pneumonia, which worsened and brought about her death
A federal judge is considering a lawsuit filed by an Alabama inmate who wants out of jail temporarily so she can get an abortion
Since the state shuttered its only mental health hospital in 2006, it appears that most patients have landed in the criminal justice system instead of receiving promised help
Jail has been testing 10 AliveLock RiskWatches through a 30-day free trial
The inmate attempted to stop a 700-pound door from closing with her hand
Dr. John Carlo, chief executive officer of AIDS Arms Inc., said the five-year grant will attempt to link returning local prisoners with Dallas-area medical providers
Microdermal implants can be problematic in correctional settings
Heroin use has increased 60 percent nationwide over the last 10 years
Fire was confined to the medical director’s office, but smoke filled the first floor of the medical wing and administrative offices
Plans to sue the city and Corizon, the private medical firm hired by the city to provide medical care to inmates
The ability to think and act quickly in an excited delirium situation, then, could spell the difference between gaining control and a lost life
Inmate Ramon C. Estrada died April 5 after two dialysis technicians switched shifts and nobody showed up for his appointment
