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.
Union president for COs jokes that “everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure
All off-site medical transports will require two Marion County deputies and murder suspects will wear red clothing to indicate their potential danger
Lexipol and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) discuss how your facility can save lives through a well-developed MOUD program.
Donates more than 2000 gift bags of toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental floss to inmates each year
Seeks to force the DOC to provide interpreter services for medical visits, video phones that allow deaf callers to see sign language and other hearing devices
Approved a one-year contract with a company that will come to the jail to do the x-rays
More than a dozen inmates of county facilities have killed themselves since ’09
Lied to officers that he had been the victim of a robbery and assault
In Virginia, a prisoner is far more likely to die behind bars than get released because he’s old and sick
The state has been using telemedicine at prisons since 1997
Hospice not only benefits the dying, but their prisoner caretakers as well
It’s the first in-state change in decades to a long-standing rule that deems inmates ineligible for Medicaid, known in Minnesota as Medical Assistance
Freed inmates who qualifiy will be able to get help for substance abuse and mental health problems
Unions’ three contracts with Corizon expired Nov. 26
Wife: “They went way beyond what they should have done”
Eusemia Rodriguez, 33, died the same day she posted a $3,000 bond and after her family said she was “throwing up blood” and didn’t receive the medical attention she needed
High court said life sentences without parole are unconstitutional for juveniles
Exhausting all available opportunities to bring in new revenue and cut costs in the prison system
Inmate may have become infected at a county-level lockup and brought the rash into the 23-year-old prison facility
Expansion states are taking advantage of the chance to cover outside hospitalizations that cost their states millions, as well as the opportunity to enroll parolees in Medicaid. Studies show health care keeps them from returning to prison
Prominent state senator says taxpayers should not have to pay late medical bills for inmates
A Polk County judge has resentenced Kristina Fetters and is recommending parole
Up to 95 percent of the 4,500 inmates estimated to be released from state prisons next year will qualify for health insurance under ACA
Attorneys with the Disability Law and Advocacy Center of Tennessee filed the lawsuit Thursday on behalf of 25-year-old Kyle Kirchner
DOC removed all inmates at the Oklahoma State Reformatory under the age of 40 in July 2012
This award pays tribute to innovative, well-executed communications that have had a positive impact on the field of correctional health care
Prison administrators told state legislators that they made “a humanitarian decision” to continue housing an inmate who is incapable of taking care of himself
Group’s program director said that the state fails to provide medication and medical devices to inmates
Questions mount as state prison officials refuse to divulge causes in October deaths of four inmates
One month after Richard Ferst’s death, relatives don’t have a definitive cause of death and they now have mounting questions about the care he was getting behind bars
The new contract includes medical, dental, pharmaceutical and mental health services and covers about 10,000 adult and juvenile offenders
New York spending rose 33 percent to nearly $5,900 for a prisoner’s medical care in 2008
New report details how Maine lowered its status from the highest inmate health-care costs