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Prison healthcare is the medical specialty in which healthcare providers care for people in prisons and jails. Prison healthcare is a relatively new specialty that developed alongside the adaption of prisons into modern disciplinary institutions .
The nation’s largest prison health care provider has come under fire from a group of Democratic senators who say they are alarmed the government contractor’s chronic understaffing and cost ...
A 2017 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics noted that 54.3% of prisoners and 35% of jail inmates who had experienced serious psychological distress in the past 30 days have received mental health treatment since admission to the current facility, and 63% of prisoners and 44.5% of jail inmates with a history of a mental health problem ...
In 2019, Mann sued Corizon and Centurion Health, the private companies then contracted to provide care in Florida prisons, and his prison doctors. He called an expert witness, a colon and rectal ...
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]
A third of California’s adult prisons provide an “inadequate” level of medical care to their inmate patients, according to the most recent inspections from the state’s prison watchdog ...
NCCHC's origins date to the early 1970s, when an American Medical Association (AMA) study of jails found inadequate, disorganized health services and a lack of national standards. In collaboration with other organizations, the AMA established a program that, in the early 1980s, became the NCCHC.
The Washington Health Care Authority has awarded the Kitsap County Jail a $2.25 million grant as part of its Medicaid Reentry Demonstration Project. The program temporarily expands Medicaid access ...