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Todaro v. Ward argued that women within a New York prison did not have adequate, constitutional access to healthcare. Since Todaro v. Ward was the first major court case that called into question incarcerated women's actual access to health care, it spurred organizations such as the American Medical Association, American Correctional Association, and the American Public Health Association to ...
Blood-like stains and cockroaches litter the floor of this Folsom prison. See what other “inadequacies” plague California State Prison, Sacramento. New Folsom Prison health care deemed ...
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 ...
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]
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.
Inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, with one alleging she later contracted terminal cancer and was denied timely medical care, a ...
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 ...
“Here is a laboratory demonstration of how people with mental health issues die in our jail.” ‘Take action.’ Advocates urge release of Tarrant County inmate with mental health issues