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.
Sheriff Patrick Labat says the jail will follow “our normal practices” when former President Trump arrives for booking
COs are monitoring people inside the unairconditioned housing units for heat-related health problems
More than half of the employees at Coffee Creek feel it is “not a psychologically safe facility for staff,” the researchers wrote
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
Encouraging sleep in inmates creates a safer working environment
Corizon Inc. of Brentwood, Tenn., plans to start work Aug. 1
State prison inmates with serious physical or mental health problems will begin arriving in mid-July
Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard said it probably is the nation’s most state-of-the-art prison medical facility
Judge ordered as many as 3,250 inmates evacuated within 90 days, but he left it up to corrections officials to determine where they should go
Order gives the state seven days to begin the transfers and 90 days to complete them
U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II on Friday concluded that pursuing clemency from the state is not a proper use of federal funds
Senator: “I think it’s time to have a comprehensive discussion about ways we can lower our costs”
Nearly three-dozen inmate deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations have been blamed on the fungus that causes an illness known as valley fever
Vickie Alston’s instinct has always been to help those in need
Under a worst-case scenario, that means the county could lose up to $67,000, county officials said
The California Health Care Facility, Stockton, cost $900 million to build and is expected to eventually employ 2,400 people
Questions have been raised about the contract that would provide incarcerated felons medical services
Ramirez, 53, had been taken from San Quentin’s death row to a hospital where authorities said he died of liver failure
Ariel Castro, 52, has been taken off “suicide prevention” watch
Facility is being built on the grounds of the old CYA (California Youth Authority, now DJJ, Division of Juvenile Justice) property
Florida firm to get $8.9 million for one-year contract at jail
Saved more than $26 million last year
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco should wait for the centers’ recommendations before enforcing an order last week by the federal official who controls prison medical care
Lori Hamilton says she received a letter from Jones last month she believes indicated he might try to take his own life
Since he is in federal custody, it’s unlikely Tsarnaev or his family will have to pay for his medical care
