Corrections Medical Supplies News & Articles

• Sheriff rolls out medical monitoring wristbands to curb jail deaths

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  Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens said the wristbands act as a means to quickly respond to inmate medical emergencies

• Responding to an inmate escape

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  There are some key steps correctional officers can take to prepare for a safe and effective response to a prison escape

• How to respond to correctional emergencies

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  When facing emergencies, correctional officers must be ready and trained to deliver a measured, systematic response

• 12 gifts for your favorite corrections officer

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  The holidays are right around the corner; let us help you with your gift shopping list!

• Authorities: Iowa jail inmate hurt officer, nurse

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  An Iowa jail inmate at a Mason City hospital has been accused of hurting a corrections officer and nurse while trying to escape

• Corrections officer suffers concussion at Kan. prison

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  Staff at the facility are on edge after incidents of inmate-on-guard violence on three consecutive days last month

• Treating duty and training pains with RockTape

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  Police and corrections personnel are now discovering what athletes have known for some time — the benefit of kinesiology taping

• SecurPass allows for full body cavity imaging

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  Proven technology adapted to security imaging in a corrections enviornment

• Va. inmate seeks pardon based on heart-health problems

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  Prisoners have a constitutional right to adequate health care, and since 2009, surgeons at the VCU Medical Center have twice implanted the LVAD in the inmate's chest

• Removing needles from correctional settings

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  Until correctional administrators can guarantee a totally drug-free environment, they need to manage the risk of infections caused by inmate access to needles

• Rapid blood testing speeds onsite treatment

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  Editor’s Note: The author, Lorry Schoenly, has not tested or evaluated the brands identified in this column. They are only used as examples of available products. By Lorry Schoenly If I could put s...

• Japanese prisons face swelling elderly population

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  Population is aging in Japan faster than anywhere else, and with that has come an even sharper rise in elderly inmates.

• Mother of Virginia inmate who killed herself files $2.4 million suit

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  Suit claims sheriff ignored inmate's pleas for help from heroin withdrawal

• DUI case complicated by burp before breath test

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  A judge threw out the results which registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.15 percent

• California’s budget woes thwart improvements to prison medicine

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  SPCR.comToday, California spends $1 billion more on medical care for inmates than it did in 2005 when a federal judge found that care so flawed that he seized control of the system and appointed a ...

• Canadian prison report urges needle exchange programs

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  CBC NewsA report on drug use in prisons urges the federal government to set up needle exchange programs for inmates.Rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections in prison are 10 to 20 times higher than ...

• NCCHC: Psychogenic Seizures — A Real Issue in Corrections

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  Seizure management can be difficult in the correctional setting, due in part to the concern that an inmate may be fabricating a seizure history or seizure activity in order to obtain perks or desir...

• NCCHC: “STRONG” response to excited delirium can prevent sudden death

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  This video shows Appleton, Wis. police responding to an excited delirium situation last June, providing interesting perspective into the nature of an inflicted subject.“Excited delirium is a medica...

• The aging inmate issue: Can we afford elderly incarceration?

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  By Stephanie ChenCNN.com HARDWICK, Ga. — White fuzz covers his bald head. His sallow skin sags. A wheelchair and cane support limp legs.This is not the typical image of a prison inmate. But 73-year...

• Calif. to boost inmate health by easing overcrowding

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  California HealthlineOn Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) offered federal judges a new plan to reduce California's prison population by about 40,000 inmates over the next two years, the San ...

• Calif. County Jail implements swine flu quarantine

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  By Steven BarrieThe Press EnterpriseINDIO, Calif. — A quarantine has been placed on a housing unit at the Riverside County Jail in Indio because some inmates in the unit displayed flulike symptoms,...

• Judge postpones a 4th Ohio inmate's execution

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  Associated PressCINCINNATI — A fourth Ohio inmate has gotten a temporary stay of execution as state officials and defense lawyers continue to examine the state's lethal injection method.A federal j...

• Ohio considering bone, muscle for lethal injection

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  By Stephen MajorsAssociated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio is considering injecting lethal drugs into inmates' bone marrow or muscles as an alternative to - or a backup for - the traditional intravenous...

• High-tech health in jails

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  By Randall HigginsChattanooga Times Free PressCLEVELAND, Tenn. — The Alabama company that provides health care at the Bradley County Justice Center unveiled an electronic records system Wednesday t...

• Stopping swine flu before it starts

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  By Luke WhyteAt this year’s ACA summer conference, all three speakers in workshop “Managing seasonal influenza in the correctional setting” said something about your grandmother.“It’s what grandma ...

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