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.
“Clark County Jail Services wants to ensure anyone leaving the jail, as well as friends, family and community members, are easily able to procure naloxone to reduce death from opioid overdose,” Jail Services Director David Shook said
Real-world data of high-dose naloxone administration by law enforcement officers found no added benefit to opioid overdose patients
RIDUP is a four-month program targeting SUD treatment for inmates, supporting the mental and behavioral needs of participants
Corizon Health Inc., whose three-year, $126 million contract expires Dec. 31, received an overall rating of “fair” in 2014 for the second straight year
Correct Care Solutions paid $1.35M to Richard Sweeper III, now 55, “an incapacitated adult”
His family accuses correctional staff of acting with “deliberate indifference” to Kenneth Dalstra’s health and safety
As a start, de Blasio’s administration wants to add over $54 million in mental health programs next fiscal year
Michelle Kosilek has been in a 13-year dispute with the MDOC over her medical care
It’s no surprise that working as a corrections officer is stressful
Two bills put the inmate’s family $4,000 in the hole
18 current and former San Juan County Adult Detention Center inmates filed a complaint
State could save $2 million over the next three years by choosing a new private contractor to provide health care for inmates
How would you approach this type of injury?
Keep yourself safe: Setting boundaries with inmates
Establishing a personal relationship with an inmate is inappropriate, at best; it can be dangerous and illegal as well
A dialysis technician forgot about an appointment at Utah’s prison
Treating all chronically ill inmates would double the state’s $19.3 million prison health budget
“This is an obvious attempt to take advantage of the system to get early release,” Sheriff Dane Howard said
Do you know the best methods involved with preventing or ending an infection in your facility? Brush up with these tips
Whether you want to be hired by a police department, transferred to another unit, or get promoted, you have to attract the attention of those who can help get you where you want to go
Mentally ill inmates who act out can get counseling instead of being automatically sent to isolation cells or kept in prison longer
Physician was hired after lawsuits over four New York hospital deaths, state probation
Since 2001, more than 1.8 million troops have been deployed to support military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other areas experiencing conflict.
Satisfaction surveys? In a Jail? Whadaya, nuts? But it works!
Would establish the county’s first veterans treatment court, aimed at helping troubled veterans and active military personnel avoid jail by getting mental health and substance abuse treatment
Department of Corrections has paid $1.5 million in similar claims since 2011
Under the settlement, the sheriff’s department will buy and maintain hundreds of new wheelchairs and provide physical therapy on site for disabled inmates
Thirty percent of the more than 12,000 people in the jail’s custody have a mental illness, and most of those are receiving psychiatric medications
Expect prison to return to normal operations Monday after a gastrointestinal outbreak stopped activities and visits
Do you know the signs and symptoms of measles so you can contact the medical unit and avert a major outbreak in your facility?
The bill was prompted by the dehydration death of Michael Anthony Kerr
A new study by the University of Denver states that further study into the brain injuries of inmates may lead toward better treatment options
Latisha Anderson: “Disabled people do have a place in this world and will keep running my mouth”
The facility is the result of lawsuits and a DOJ report stating inmates were at “risk of serious harm”