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 contact-free system uses radar technology to monitor patients’ vital signs by responding to the tiny vibrations in their bodies created by the movement of their heart and lungs
Michael Anderson pleaded guilty in July to one count of deprivation of civil rights
New report points to health problems experienced by inmates after arriving at the prison
A threat of a hunger strike to begin Monday at Northumberland County Prison has jail officials taking a wait-and-see approach
State leaders ‘appalled’ by report of drug prescriptions to juveniles in Colo. correction facilities
Juveniles in the state’s correctional facilities have been prescribed psychotropic and other medications without proper parental consent
Patrick Hamlow, 54, uses a wheelchair to get around his Kalihi apartment because he lost both legs
County Board has turned down Sheriff Dave Drew twice in the request to spend $210,000 for more nurses
In the past decade, the number of S.C. inmates age 55 and older has more than doubled
Understaffed and overburdened, the nurses requested 2 more staff members
Said he had ingested C-4, causing hospital evacuation
Max Soffar’s attorneys filed a petition this week to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Nurse Jacque Biegajski jumped into action when the inmate collapsed from an asthma attack
Hillsborough County sheriff’s are deciding which company to pick to treat sick and injured jail inmates
The inmate has not clarified why she requires one
Files of at least 40,000 former prisoners crowd nearly a mile of shelf space in a Salem warehouse
An initial investigation revealed policy and procedure were not followed in the event of the stabbing
Staff at the Cook County jail had to get creative to stop an inmate, diagnosed with severe schizophrenia, from gouging out his own eyes
A Maine State Prison inmate has been on a hunger strike for one month while protesting his living conditions there
Denied a request from a dying Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of killing a nun in 1980
Erick Fontain Thomas was left writhing on his prison cell floor for hours, resulting in permanent neurological damage
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Applied a tourniquet to inmate’s leg to control bleeding after inmate injured himself
Lawsuit alleges prison officials allowed him to suffer for more than a week before sending him to a doctor
Worst case scenario would be bacterial meningitis
Daughter of inmate claims that officials’ mishandling of mentally ill inmates allowed for her father to be killed by his cellmate
Each year, according to federal estimates, one out of seven Americans with HIV passes through a correctional facility
Found that inmate became unruly when he entered the facility and that staff followed all policies
Would cost taxpayers $2.6M yearly
The long story of how one county came to pay for a federal inmate’s medical bills is baffling
Some legislators are questioning why how she died and why she was in jail in the first place
Following the discovery of an infected inmate, 381 other Pendleton Correctional Facility inmates were tested for TB
Four Berks County juvenile probation drug-and-alcohol specialists work around the clock meeting with juveniles and their families to help them stay clean and sober