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.
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Jails in the study saw lower death rates without adding staff, changing providers or upgrading equipment
The initiative is part of a broader effort to support correction officers’ health, including peer programs and resilience training
Former jail nurse Polly Daniels Sheppard says she was always bothered by the lack of compassionate health workers behind bars
Kaczynski is serving life without the possibility of parole following his 1996 arrest
Throughout their partnership with a private healthcare provider, VADOC has faced criticism over the quality of health services
Reentry support in resource-strapped rural communities is critical for individuals to successfully transition from correctional settings to the community
The new settlement affirms these individuals’ right to medical devices they need as well as work and educational opportunities
The state’s decision affects incapacitated inmates who are deemed to still need some sort of supervision
While the state has protocols in place to screen and confiscate outgoing inmate mail, Multnomah County says their hands are tied
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Jail chief Col. Temetris Atkins said his staff was “screaming for this type of program”
“A quick-thinking nurse brought him back,” said an inmate about one of the recent overdoses
“There are dozens of reasons to leave and very few to stay,” said Brian Dawe of One Voice United
“If an inmate would require medical attention en route to an emergency room at a hospital, the EMS ambulance crew is better prepared than my deputies” Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert said
Sheriff Craig Owens said his office will be the first in the state of Georgia to implement this service
The Denver Sheriff Department hopes the new Crisis Response Team will minimize deputies’ workloads and provide better service to people in the jail
Attorneys argue the low-IQ inmate should have been given help understanding the prison paperwork that laid the groundwork for the planned lethal injection
The case comes after the Massachusetts State Police unsuccessfully sued Gov. Charlie Baker
The inmate, who is accused of assaulting police officers, has yet to receive treatment for a broken wrist sustained in May
“I don’t know how you can look at yourself in a mirror,” said Judge Patricia Cosgrove
No corrections officer or sheriff’s department employee who worked inside the jail wrote a letter on Ken Mills’ behalf
Rep. Steve Clouse said the plan would be a first step in correcting violence and abuse that has brought a federal lawsuit against the state
The order covers all 34 of California’s prisons, but allows for religious and medical exemptions
EMS crews are being left without DOC escorts to protect them when they enter the jails, the union says
A federal court-appointed receiver asked a judge to impose the mandate Friday, arguing that voluntary vaccination programs of staff have failed
When it comes to assessing an inmate’s mental health, we must rely on subjective markers and compare those markers to the inmate’s baseline
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Arlington County is now including fentanyl test strips in the kits, along with Narcan and other treatment resources
Medical staff recorded that the inmate “stated he felt fine,” but did so without a translator present
The man who once ran the jail now faces a potential sentence of nine months behind bars
If a CO feels that restraints are necessary, a written explanation must be submitted within 5 days of incident
He said it was “clear” the inmate would suffer irreparable harm if denied the treatment while incarcerated
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