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.
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
The agreement also calls for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to conduct new training for deputies and jail medical staff
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
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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”
A former correctional officer trained in CPR was in the right place at the right time when a cyclist collapsed to the ground and stopped breathing
Claimed doctor told him to “throw the detached portion of his finger into the garbage”
The reality is that incarceration is expensive. There is no denying that fact.
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The number of inmates over 50 has steadily increased inside Missouri prisons since 2004
A prison nursing supervisor fired after a mentally ill inmate died of dehydration last year will get her job back, a North Carolina judge ruled this week
Prison officials want to be able to save money by releasing inmates who require round-the-clock medical care or are otherwise incapacitated
Tuesday’s City Council oversight hearing follows a report by The Associated Press last year that raised serious questions about the medical care inmates received in at least 15 deaths
Used CPR and an AED to save a 27-year-old correctional officer having a sudden heart attack
Ashley Diamond is seeking a court order requiring prison officials to provide her with treatments for her disorder, among other demands