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Infectious diseases within American correctional settings are a concern within the public health sector. The corrections population is susceptible to infectious diseases through exposure to blood and other bodily fluids, drug injection, poor health care, prison overcrowding, demographics, security issues, lack of community support for rehabilitation programs, and high-risk behaviors. [1]
Correctional Officers and Parole Agents are sworn Peace Officers per California Penal code sections 830.5, as their primary duties are to provide public safety and correctional services in and outside of state prison grounds, state-operated medical facilities, and camps while engaged in the performance of their duties.
An audit of narcotics smuggling in four California prisons found drug-sniffing dogs are not used enough to search inmates, visitors, mail and staff as dope continues to get into these detention ...
As of July 17, 39 prison inmates have died in California prisons; about half of these were disabled. [ 100 ] From March 31 to June 6, there has been 42,107 confirmed cases of COVID-19 along with 510 deaths from state and federal prisons with a case rate of 3,251 per 100,000 prisoners; making it 5.5 times higher than the case rate of US ...
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation staff routinely report people in their custody to ICE, according to public records obtained by the ACLU and released in a new report.
Prisons were accused of bungling the pandemic. In the federal prison system, the issues start at the top, critics say. Disgraced doctors, unlicensed officials: Prisons face criticism over health care
Gomez in 1995, the U.S. district court for Northern California determined that a significant number of inmates held in SHU units within Pelican Bay prison suffered from mental health issues. [6] California law allows for any prisoner to be placed into an SHU unit for an indefinite amount of time, so long as they are suspected to be active ...
Crime was among the top issues that Californians want the Legislature and governor to work on in 2024, according to a Public Policy Institute of California poll released in February.