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.
Five former inmates secure a settlement against a jail doctor for administering ivermectin without their consent amid COVID-19
The lawsuit alleged that assessment and treatment delays for pneumonia by medical staff led to the amputation of the inmate’s left hand and portions of his other limbs
How can jails effectively address opioid use disorder (OUD), while maintaining the safety of the facility and ensuring protection of inmates’ constitutional rights?
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
Their life sentences for armed robbery were suspended last week on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other
Typically, inmate deaths are reportable to the coroner’s office, but autopsies are performed only when the death is not natural
One third of the inmates who were recently released from years of segregation are back in solitary confinement
There are now more than three times more seriously mentally ill individuals in jails and prisons in this country than in hospitals
The family of the inmate claimed he failed to get treatment for colon cancer
Officials hope outsourcing the county jails’ nursing duties to a private agency will save a few million dollars
Reining in underground tattooing can reduce the spread of Hepatitis and HIV
Inmate claims his dental problems resulted from withheld toothpaste
Riot started after inmate died in December 2008; attorneys say the 32-year-old had an epileptic seizure while in solitary confinement
Had been housed at Groveland Correctional Facility in western New York
Population is aging in Japan faster than anywhere else, and with that has come an even sharper rise in elderly inmates.
The man was reportedly booked into the jail just before noon Monday
“One was fired for stealing pills. One had had her license suspended. And two were fired for fighting,” says nurse who worked at jail
Treating people while they are jailed gives authorities a chance to stop health problems before they hit the public, study says
The inmate died of penile cancer that went untreated while he was held in a federal detention center awaiting deportation
Inmate rejects previous agreement which would give her state-issued women’s underwear; instead wants state funded sex change
New TV documentary series takes in-depth look at the work of doctors behind bars at the Cook County Jail
The inmate apparently died in a medical unit at the prison after suffering what other prisoners described as systematic abuse by officers