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.
According to the report, “in addition to any potential human failures, staffing shortages and pressures, policy deficiencies and ambiguities, and historical internal practices were chief contributing factors”
A heat illness prevention plan for the state’s 30 prisons includes increased access to water, ice, fans, portable cooling units
Union president for COs jokes that “everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure
Several inmates have had catastrophic medical cases over the last two years that were not anticipated in the budget
Correctional Staff conducted a medical examination after an inmate was acting strange in the Jail housing unit
Medical costs for a jail in south-central Tennessee are projected to overrun the budget by $300,000 by the end of June
Department of Corrections will spend an estimated $350,000 to treat four inmates for Hepatitis C
Inmate Tyler Berrios now faces charges of assault, criminal mischief and menacing
Was unable to attend court due to medical problems, jailed anyway
Authorities said Thursday inmates reported a bad odor in the jail’s west block at 1:20 a.m. on Sunday
Lobbyist: “What kills us is when we get the $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 inmate”
Electronic cigarettes are powered by a small battery that heats a liquid to create a vapor users can inhale
“Giving men and women in prison the opportunity to earn a college degree costs our state less and benefits our society more”
Brad Coleman contends that constant concern about his older brother caused him to acquire PTSD
Was half-awake when a state victims services staffer called and told her: “Inmate Anderson was found dead in the cell.”
Proposed that appeals process of court decision that found grossly substandard conditions in DOC be halted
Deaf inmate was denied an American Sign Language interpreter and given menial jobs such as cleaning toilets
Former inmate received $130,000 settlement for being shackled before and after giving birth
Undersheriff JR Hall said that perhaps the best way to reduce the costs of health care at the jail is to reduce the number of inmates
Should Midland County spend an extra $55,000 on nursing care for the jail?
The state Department of Correction said it will request a hearing by the full 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Michelle Kosilek
Maryland delegates will hear testimony about a bill that would prevent the shackling of pregnant inmates in most circumstances, particularly during labor and delivery
A new bill is aimed at decreasing HIV transmission and other sexually transmitted infections
Quarantine will remain in effect through Jan. 29 for “precautionary reasons.”
Increasingly splashing health workers with water, urine and other bodily fluids, with such incidents nearly tripling during the last year
Nearly 900 inmates at the McPherson Unit near Newport were screened for influenza
Huge gaps remain in how Wisconsin treats people with mental illnesses who run afoul of the law
Washington Department of Corrections is currently undertaking several efforts to improve healthcare efficiency so it can operate with fewer people
Nurse may have contaminated insulin vials with a needle that she used to test several prisoners’ blood sugar
Claims brain cancer, begged President Obama for a pardon
The SC Department of Corrections intends to appeal the decision
Donates more than 2000 gift bags of toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental floss to inmates each year