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.
The 55-year-old prisoner, suing as Jane Doe, claims the Georgia Department of Corrections has a ban on providing gender-affirming surgery to transgender inmates
Call light system allows a patient to summon a nurse should they experience any sort of medical distress
A California surgeon has been disciplined for removing a prisoner’s healthy kidney and leaving the diseased one intact
Cautioned that the ambitious plan de Blasio announced Tuesday will face enormous challenges
Reforms aimed largely at inmates with mental-health or substance-abuse problems who repeatedly end up in jail on minor offenses
An increase in elderly inmates will not only require a larger percentage of the federal budget, but specialized training for COs as well
The medical device is intended for high level hemorrhage control
An inmate is having an allergic reaction to a insect sting. Do you know how to respond?
Workers claim that when they brought their concerns to the sheriff, they were fired days later
Nosebleeds are rarely life-threatening, but they can be easily treated
Request is part of the DOC’s response to a long-running federal lawsuit over the treatment of mentally ill inmates
CPR is a simple and lifesaving skill that anyone can learn
Here are brief accounts, based on the city and state documents, of some of those cases
Concern over world news is normal but fear that causes us to freeze up needs to be put in check
Knowing how to perform the Heimlich maneuver correctly is a life-saving skill
A Pa. man says he assaulted his dentist with a tire iron because he couldn’t afford dental treatment and knew he’d get it in prison
33K inmates filed lawsuit after complaining their cancer went undetected, or were told to pray to be cured after begging for treatment
Inmate says he needs the device for his pain, DOC says he needs medication and exercise
Department of Corrections chief thought it couldn’t be treated until AIDS symptoms developed
Says he is permanently restricted to a wheelchair because doctors working with the jail refused to clear him for a back surgery after his arrest
Full bill was $900,000 and the county will foot $284,000 of the cost
Monet will be used to identify offenders with traumatic brain injuries and help them avoid a return to prison
Just months after all medical care in state prisons was privatized, the count of inmate deaths spiked to a 10-year high
Correctional Medical Care has agreed to pay restitution and penalties totally $200,000 in connection with a state probe of its business practices
Three inmates from the Two Bridges Regional Jail were indicted for trafficking contraband inside the prison by ‘cheeking’ their medication
Lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that Correctional Healthcare Companies failed to properly provide medical treatment to James Neisler
U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins on Friday rejected 57-year-old Robert Foley’s claims that state sabotaged the attempts to find a hospital and surgeon
A new analysis shows that the influx of inmates into county jails is raising the cost of health care within those facilities
A man currently serving time for the attempted assault of an officer is seeking $5 million for being injured during that same assault
State police concluded Thursday that no criminal charges should be filed
A federal magistrate doesn’t believe that making the surveillance video of a county inmate’s death will compromise the jail’s security