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.
Concerns regarding the policies came to light during an OIG investigation of two COs who allegedly failed to do mandatory SHU rounds during or around the time of an assault that resulted in an inmate’s death
The court was also highly critical of an alleged unwritten cost-cutting jail policy that caused delays in sending detainees to the hospital when necessary
The report identifies several operational and managerial deficiencies that created unsafe conditions before and at the time of a number of the deaths
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
Report examined four ways that states respond to increasing costs
Illegal drugs may never be welcomed in the American prison system, but how about alcohol or prescription drugs?
The departure of psychiatrists who were fired or quit has left the unit seriously understaffed, with doctors handling twice their case loads of the previous year
Previous company was faulted in a string of deaths and lawsuits
In the last fiscal year, the Dickson County Sheriff’s Office paid nearly $954,000 for inmate medical care
Department plans to take the number of offenders treated by telemedicine from 3,500 to 20,000 in the coming year
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