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
CorrectHealth GDC, the sole bidder on Bostick, has received Department of Community Health approval to set up a $6.9 million, 280-bed skilled nursing facility at the site
Says it took more than two days to find out he was in the hospital
Prisons could relocate medical costs to the federal government
New policy for inmates with water-drinking disorder
Tennessee company was sued 660 times for malpractice in the past five years
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued an opinion Monday saying the agreement isn’t perfect but can take effect
New reports released in inmate death do not detail how actions taken by jail staff played a role
The settlement calls for the HIV-positive male inmates to be integrated by November 2014
Prisoners who are HIV-positive were segregated from other inmates
Without medication, inmate cannot be found competent for execution
U.S. District Court Judge Judge James C. Turk ruled Wednesday that Ophelia De’Lonta is entitled to get evaluated by a gender identity specialist of her choice
Jesse Avina Morales, 21, died June 29 in Chelan County Regional Justice Center and “the initial investigation revealed no obvious cause of death”
One report found that 60 percent of inmates have some kind of body piercing; how do you deal with it?
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are threatening to cut funding for the hospital because of overcrowding, inadequate staffing and the use of corrections officers to maintain safety in parts of the hospital
Inmate became a paraplegic in 2007 and requires the use of catheters to urinate, but he says the jail won’t consistently give him clean ones
Water is being tested at the Roxbury Correctional Institution for the bacterium that causes the disease
Court-appointed agency in charge of prison medical services is clearing out hospital beds in some prisons to make room for the anticipated space
Adding treatment, training for inmates meets resistance
Without warning, he grabbed the doctor by her hair and started choking her
Lawsuit alleges that a CO at the Beckley Correctional Center told other officers and inmates that one prisoner had HIV
Director Patrick Morse and Dr. Calixto Calderon were both employees of the corrections arm of Jackson Health System
Alleging medical negligence that left him temporarily paralyzed and numb in half his body even today.
Fiscal Review Committee members want the winner of the contract, Centurion LLC, to come before the panel in September
This ‘national epidemic’ includes packed prisons, high-cost medical care and dwindling resources. This all begs the question: Should frail, incapacitated inmates be there?
Pool of eligible inmates set to increase next year
Failure to provide potentially life-saving treatment for inmate as he suffered the early stages of a stroke raises questions about the quality of medical care in Hillsborough County jails
One state lawmaker says it’s time to give inmates a way to practice safe sex behind bars to reduce an infection rate that experts say is much higher than that of the general population
Officials at the medium-security prison planned to bring in blocks of ice and a portable swamp cooler to supplement the other one
Elderly prisoners cost more because almost all expenses related to their health care must be borne by state tax dollars
