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.
Inmates at Hidalgo, Luna and Doña Ana facilities are infected as the state coordinates containment efforts
A medical audit of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center links systemic breakdowns in detox, chronic care and emergency response to ongoing constitutional violations
Ruling cites ongoing constitutional violations and says inmates face immediate risk from systemic healthcare failures
The contact-free system uses radar technology to monitor patients’ vital signs by responding to the tiny vibrations in their bodies created by the movement of their heart and lungs
Michael Anderson pleaded guilty in July to one count of deprivation of civil rights
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A state corrections spokesperson stated that staffing shortages are exacerbated by the remote locations of many state prisons, which are typically difficult to staff
The deal with a disability rights group, if approved by a judge, requires state prisons to have mental health and medical staff who specialize in gender-affirming care
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
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?
6 people, employed by the Sacramento County Jail’s healthcare contractor, have been arrested for smuggling drugs into the jail
Emergency responders administered Narcan to the unresponsive inmates inside a Mecklenburg County Courthouse holding cell
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
Union president for COs jokes that “everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure
All off-site medical transports will require two Marion County deputies and murder suspects will wear red clothing to indicate their potential danger
Lexipol and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) discuss how your facility can save lives through a well-developed MOUD program.
Broome County Sheriff says the agreement establishes “clear LGBTI Guidelines, which were previously nonexistent”
Paul Flores, hospitalized in serious condition, was sentenced in March for 25 years to life for the 1996 killing
Former inmate tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease two-days after transfer from county prison to state prison
Sheriff Patrick Labat says the jail will follow “our normal practices” when former President Trump arrives for booking
COs are monitoring people inside the unairconditioned housing units for heat-related health problems
More than half of the employees at Coffee Creek feel it is “not a psychologically safe facility for staff,” the researchers wrote
COs suffer from depression, PTSD and suicide at a higher rate than the average population; part of the revamp plan is to improve the prison staff’s experience
The number of those in jail who died from drug or alcohol intoxication increased nearly 400% from 2000 to 2019
The man serving a life sentence for a double murder admitted to an attack on COs that left one with a traumatic brain injury and broken ribs
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