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Ohio has 181 standards for full-service jails meant to ensure a minimum of care for inmates across the state. But a lack of enforcement and deference to local control mean conditions and treatment ...
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]
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 ...
In 2021, Foward provided testimony before the Ohio Redistricting Commission at Sinclair Community College. [164] On November 15, 2022, Foward organized a press conference to address period equity due to ongoing health care disparities related to the inadequate supply of feminine hygiene products in Ohio prisons.
For more than 2 million Ohioans, affordable health care remains out of reach. In 2021, the families of roughly 1 in 5 people – or 2.2 million Ohioans – spent more than 10% of their annual ...
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 .
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.
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.