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.
Anthony “Jack” Sully, 79, died of natural causes at a medical facility outside of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center
According to the report, “in addition to any potential human failures, staffing shortages and pressures, policy deficiencies and ambiguities, and historical internal practices were chief contributing factors”
A heat illness prevention plan for the state’s 30 prisons includes increased access to water, ice, fans, portable cooling units
According to the lawsuit, inmates are regularly denied treatment for life-threatening illnesses, severe mental health symptoms and serious dental conditions
The San Jose Fire Department was summoned, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics
The actions taken in the first few minutes after a discovered hanging can be the difference between a hospital transfer and an in-custody death
State objects to the state’s exploring a plan to hire outside contractors for prison nursing and medical-record services
Samuel Gomez’s family said he is seriously ill and not receiving proper care at the prison in Chaparral, N.M., while awaiting trial on federal drug conspiracy charges
Wichita County jail administrators were quick to act Wednesday when they believed a small number of inmates were suffering from a contagious infection
Prison officials will begin transferring inmates to the new hospital in mid-November
Dennis Franklin Harkness had been held at the jail since Sept. 25 on a bench warrant for misdemeanor charges
Inmates can have functional disability that makes them vulnerable to perdition and injury
A series of bank robberies involving a woman wearing a variety ofwigs may be the work of a nurse employed at the Kootenai County Jail until last week
Find out why James Fox enjoys working with prisoners
The 14-page report found that the cutbacks have caused delays for inmates who need to see mental health specialists and receive medication
In the last decade, the number of inmates 55 and older has spiked as much as 8 percent each year
The death comes just two weeks after hospital workers held a protest demanding increased safety measures at the facility
A medical helicopter was called to the prison but later canceled when UFA arrived and treated the wounded inmate
Inmate swallowed bag full of unknown substance after fighting with corrections officers
Rising complaints about inadequate prisoner healthcare are exposing taxpayers to steep long-term costs
Hospital workers unnerved by inmates being uncuffed and dumped at the emergency room
Florida prison chief Edwin Buss says inmates hospitalized with smoking-related illnesses cost Florida taxpayers nearly $9 million last year
Within prison walls across Michigan, prescription medications designed to help inmates are actually hurting taxpayers
Facilities were locked down after prisoners came down with chills, fevers and respiratory ailments
Inmate’s family alleges he never saw a physician, let alone a specialist, after he first reported having seizures in September 2008
The merger between Valitás Health Services Inc. and America Service Group Inc. will serve more than 400 correctional facilities in 31 states
Virginia corrections officials continue to try to get the Rastafarian inmates to comply with the state’s grooming policy
Jamie Scott was released last month because she suffers from kidney failure; Gladys Scott was also released on the condition she donate her kidney to her sister
Sentencing leads to older inmate population
Needles loom large as a major culprit in the spread of infectious diseases, but advances in needleless injection for immunization day may lower the threat and reduce costs
Suit claims the jail and its medical service failed to properly treat and protect a psychotic inmate