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.
Detectives suspect the man, who kicked and spit at guards, was “grooming” a nurse by exchanging letters with her
The blend of technology and education aims at equipping inmates with job-ready skills, amid ongoing 40% staff vacancy rate
Allegations made to the civilian oversight board include overflowing toilets, racial insensitivity and lack of sanitation gear for inmates
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton in Sacramento ruled that the state failed to prove that it is providing the level of care required by the U.S. Constitution
State has contracted with a private company to move severely ill prisoners
The state Corrections Department provides cross-gender hormones to only two of the nearly 25,000 inmates serving time in Oklahoma prisons
Sheriff hopes to win approval for Armor Correctional Services to take over the inmate medical job on a contract worth more than $16M a year
In short, he thinks the proposed nursing facility is a bad fit for the neighborhood and the town
A simplified and cheaper way to provide these services has come in the form of a partnership with the Bradley County Health Department
New court filings reveal that the state suppressed a report from its own consultant warning that California’s prison suicide-watch practices encouraged inmate deaths
Overpaid by 10 percent on more than $1M worth of claims
Cooked into the jail because he missed a court date while hospitalized
City officials plan to convert closed nursing home into a facility for elderly and otherwise infirmed prison inmates
Weeklong program teaches corrections officers to recognize the signs of mental illness and how to respond correctly
Official: “It is steadily coming down and will continue to come down over the coming months”
None of the doctors practice in the state
Claims he was held in solitary confinement, denied medical care and access to an interpreter and couldn’t communicate through sign-language because of the way he was handcuffed
A recurring comment: give her parole, and have her pay for her own surgery
Virginia inmate Ophelia De’lonta appears closer to getting a sex change — paid for by taxpayers
Jails and prisons, like schools and homeless shelters, need a solid plan for screening for and treating these tiny vampires
Gov. Brownback reallocates $10M for mental health initiative
Oscar Diaz-Hernandez is still charged with 11 felonies, five of which carry life sentences
A concoction including poultry, vegetables and beans, biscuit mix and something called “dairy blend,” Nutraloaf is served in jails and prisons across the country
Previously served 18 months in federal prison for threatening to kill former President George W. Bush in 2001
The county is required by law to provide medical and mental health services to the 1,450 inmates
315 total jobs are being eliminated
Now, before ink has touched paper, a councilman is asking why the city is still doing business with a questionable firm
The plan calls for a 95-bed facility in a former nursing home at 60 West St., near a residential neighborhood
Four of the major prisons where health care is being privatized are in Miami-Dade
Struggling to avoid impending default on its mortgages
Has decided to turn in the responsibility of its inmates to Southern Health for a yearly payment of $574,860
Says the state’s policy violates federal disabilities law
The judge says the state has paid large legal fees in other prisoner rights cases
