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Correctional Health Care and Civil Rights
Published in Julie Dickinson, Anne Meyer, Karen J. Huff, Deborah A. Wipf, Elizabeth K. Zorn, Kathy G. Ferrell, Lisa Mancuso, Marjorie Berg Pugatch, Joanne Walker, Karen Wilkinson, Legal Nurse Consulting Principles and Practices, 2019
J. Thaddeus Eckenrode, Cynthia A. Maag, Mariann F. Cosby
Medical research obtained for a correctional healthcare case will be somewhat different than a typical hospitalization or physician negligence case. Correctional health care is similar, but not the same. Research and literature about medical conditions or illnesses will certainly be the same no matter where the inmate is seen, but the type of care provided or what services are actually available to incarcerated patients may be quite different.
Standards for Prison Health Care: US and British Approaches
Published in Diane C. Hatton, Anastasia A. Fisher, Andrew Coyle, Women Prisoners and Health Justice, 2018
Prison health care employees are increasingly represented by unions and professional organizations such as the Academy of Correctional Health Professionals, the Society of Correctional Physicians, and the American Correctional Health Care Association. The impact of these memberships can be both subtle and profound: improving self-respect and connecting providers with appropriate continuing education that offers a perspective on ethics and community standards of care.
Urban distress and the mental health of men
Published in David Conrad, Alan White, Alastair Campbell, Louis Appleby, Promoting Men’s Mental Health, 2018
Imprisonment is a particularly deleterious part of the experience of social and economic marginalisation for men in many countries. In correctional settings and facilities of detention the well-being of already marginalised men is further jeopardised by exposure to a range of physiological and psychological risks that increase the likelihood of poor health outcomes. Those detained in correctional settings are frequently subject to communicable infections, injury by violence, sexual trauma and under-regulated clinical trials. Facilities’ adherence to correctional healthcare standards is a matter of ongoing uncertainty and controversy around the world.
Exploring Mental Health and Substance use Treatment Needs of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth Participating in a Specialty Juvenile Court
Published in Behavioral Medicine, 2018
Mekeila C. Cook, Elizabeth Barnert, Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Kayleen Ports, Eraka Bath
Our study has implications for the delivery of health care to CSE youth in custody. Federal law mandates that all youth in juvenile detention centers have access to health care.34 However, the availability and quality of health services available to detained youth vary widely based on differences in state laws as well as local practices.35 Juvenile detention centers conduct initial health screenings, but the level of subsequent evaluation and follow-up varies. Although, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care sets standards for the delivery of health care within correctional settings, accreditation is voluntary. For mentally ill youth in custody in California, by law, an initial health intake is conducted. However, mental health screening is only conducted when initial intake screening points to potential mental health problems requiring attention or posing a risk to safety.36 Though many counties in California, including Los Angeles County, administer the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI-2),37 to assess youth for mental health symptoms,36,37 more needs to be done to ensure youth can access the care they need. Ensuring regulations are followed is of paramount importance to address the health needs of all justice involved youth and in particular, CSE youth. Trauma-informed care and SBIRT are two approaches that if comprehensively implemented as standard care, could potentially expand access to mental health and substance use treatment among justice involved CSE youth.
Misconceptions about traumatic brain injury among probation services
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2018
Conall O’Rourke, Mark A. Linden, Maria Lohan
More recently, work by Yuhasz examined misconceptions about TBI within a prison healthcare setting [33]. The study included health professionals working in correctional facilities throughout New Jersey in the USA and examined misconceptions surrounding the use of seatbelts, unconsciousness, amnesia, brain damage, and recovery. The mean percentage of overall misconceptions was 24%, with a range of 0% to 73%, and the subdomain of unconsciousness containing the highest percentage of misconceptions (39.1%). Overall, their sample endorsed fewer misconceptions than those of previous studies of the general population and held similar levels when compared to samples of college students, educators, and school psychologists. When they examined demographic factors that affected overall performance, men endorsed fewer misconceptions than women, those with doctoral levels of education performed better than those without, and those with either prior training in TBI or familiarity with someone with TBI also endorsed fewer misconceptions. The author highlighted the importance of working proactively to improve the successful reintegration of offenders into the community and emphasized the need for greater awareness about TBI within correctional healthcare settings.
The evolution of health care in the Texas correctional system and the impact of COVID-19
Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2021
Sanjana Rao, Kiran Ali, Gilbert Berdine, Victor Test, Kenneth Nugent
Hepatitis C is particularly prevalent in prisoners.7 The Houston Chronicle reported that the prisoner and nonprisoner hepatitis C rates in Texas were 12.9% and 1.5%, respectively.15 Between 1994 and 2000, the number of Texas prison deaths due to hepatitis C increased sevenfold.7 The management of hepatitis C requires expensive medications, and lawsuits have been filed against the TDCJ and UTMB claiming inadequate hepatitis C treatment for prisoners.16 Infections with HIV are also frequent in prisoners, and the number of cases has increased from 1377 in 1996 to 2453 in 2009.17 The increased HIV infection rate in prisoners is likely due to unprotected sexual activity and use of intravenous drugs prior to incarceration; 40% to 80% of inmates reportedly used drugs prior to incarceration.8 To better manage HIV infections, the TDCJ started mandatory HIV testing in Texas prisons in 2007.18 Better management of transmissible infectious diseases in prisoners has important benefits both for the prisoners and the community at large since treated prisoners are less likely to infect other members of the community following their release. Davis and coworkers have made recommendations for the care of incarcerated patients that include screening for HIV, hepatitis C, syphilis, latent tuberculosis, psychiatric conditions, and substance abuse.19 Glaser and Griefinger described correctional health care as a public health opportunity and suggested that the criminal justice system should have an epidemiologic orientation and resources adequate for education, counseling, screening, and treatment of these diseases.20 Rich et al also promoted the need for better correctional health care to improve public health.21