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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]
Ross Correctional Institution provides inmates with primary, secondary, and third level health care. Intensive care is supported by Frazier Health Center and Franklin Medical Center. The Ohio State University Medical Center also works with the institution for emergencies and long term hospitalization. Inmates are charged with a $3 co-pay from ...
A 1996 study conducted by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) on women in California, Connecticut, and Florida state prisons found a lack of adequate prenatal and postnatal medical care, prenatal nutrition, level of methadone maintenance for opiate-dependent pregnant inmates, education regarding childbirth and parenting, and ...
On June 10, he wrote to a Florida state investigator to report the Cox incident and charge that "upper mgt at Wexford is not concerned with inmate care or safety." The state investigator closed ...
For more than 2 million Ohioans, affordable health care remains out of reach. ... Ohio is ranked 44th state in the country, or near the bottom, according to the study, in terms of health value, a ...
A year-long investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and USA TODAY Network Ohio examined 219 deaths in jail custody that were reported to the state Department of Rehabilitation ...
Venezuelan prisons frequently lack bathrooms, people sleep on floors, and many inmates spend their days without shirts or shoes on, in part to combat the heat of windowless facilities. [127] This has caused US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to demand the Maduro government release six Citgo executives, held in prison since 2017, on humanitarian ...
A former corrections officer talks about her frustration with the lack of mental health care in jails. The Huffington Post Read article >> Linda Spies’ son Jake was supposed to be on suicide watch, but still ended up dead. The Huffington Post Read article >> The story of Athena Covarrubias, who hanged herself in a Texas jail last year.