Correctional Healthcare
This topic provides COs with the latest information about healthcare in the prison system, as well as training and tactics from industry experts on subjects like handling inmate medical record requests and treating inmates before EMS arrives.
Elderly inmates pose some special challenges in corrections, including safety issues as well as the physical and mental problems associated with age
YesCare has successfully serviced Kentucky for more than 30 years; adds medical and behavioral healthcare service contract with Louisville Metro Department of Corrections increasing its scope in Bluegrass State
In an ideal future, every officer would be equipped with the tools to not just enforce the law but also protect life in its most vulnerable moments
How can jails effectively address opioid use disorder (OUD), while maintaining the safety of the facility and ensuring protection of inmates’ constitutional rights?
6 people, employed by the Sacramento County Jail’s healthcare contractor, have been arrested for smuggling drugs into the jail
Emergency responders administered Narcan to the unresponsive inmates inside a Mecklenburg County Courthouse holding cell
Anthony “Jack” Sully, 79, died of natural causes at a medical facility outside of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center
According to the report, “in addition to any potential human failures, staffing shortages and pressures, policy deficiencies and ambiguities, and historical internal practices were chief contributing factors”
A heat illness prevention plan for the state’s 30 prisons includes increased access to water, ice, fans, portable cooling units
Union president for COs jokes that “everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure
All off-site medical transports will require two Marion County deputies and murder suspects will wear red clothing to indicate their potential danger
Lexipol and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) discuss how your facility can save lives through a well-developed MOUD program.
Broome County Sheriff says the agreement establishes “clear LGBTI Guidelines, which were previously nonexistent”
Paul Flores, hospitalized in serious condition, was sentenced in March for 25 years to life for the 1996 killing
Former inmate tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease two-days after transfer from county prison to state prison
Sheriff Patrick Labat says the jail will follow “our normal practices” when former President Trump arrives for booking
COs are monitoring people inside the unairconditioned housing units for heat-related health problems
More than half of the employees at Coffee Creek feel it is “not a psychologically safe facility for staff,” the researchers wrote
COs suffer from depression, PTSD and suicide at a higher rate than the average population; part of the revamp plan is to improve the prison staff’s experience
The number of those in jail who died from drug or alcohol intoxication increased nearly 400% from 2000 to 2019
The man serving a life sentence for a double murder admitted to an attack on COs that left one with a traumatic brain injury and broken ribs
AcuDetox and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing are showing value in one Colorado county
“Working in the jail is the hardest job in law enforcement. These deputies are unsung heroes. They work with an inmate population 24/7"
The inmate left the CO unconscious and suffering from “severe facial lacerations,” union representatives said
Alabama prison inmates are about three times as likely as other residents to have HIV, according to a new report
The review found that New York’s workers’ compensation benefits may be contributing to staffing shortages at state prisons
Correctional officers attempted to interrupt a brawl between multiple inmates at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center
As inmates attempted to stop the attack, one was stabbed in the chest
A simple policy shop for police has grown into a comprehensive suite of operational and wellness solutions for first responders
The details came to light after a public health emergency order was issued for the center earlier this week
The project to build hundreds of hospital beds for people held in city jails is a key part of the “Close Rikers” plan
