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.
States would be encouraged to submit proposals for how to use money to combat addiction and other medical services for people at state jails and prisons
Are you familiar with your agency’s policies that give you the tools to aid or protect vulnerable inmates?
The 24-page document claims that the “draconian confinement” is harming the inmate’s unborn child
Educating inmates and staff on infection prevention, while also adhering to basic hygiene principles, can reduce the potential for MRSA outbreaks
Transgender inmates can’t be denied hormone therapy, court rules
Trend aims to trim costs of health care
Plan for medical parole would slash costs, prison health overseer says
Condemned inmate attempted suicide on execution day
How do you respond appropriately to keep questionable illness from becoming a career stopper?
Tactics for securing the hospital environment efficiently every time
Viva Leroy Nash dies of natural causes and was deaf and nearly blind
Damon Conrow “pleads up” to a 1st degree felony
