Health services

Chronic Care Clinics: Protocols and Clinic Procedures

Chronic care clinic procedures and protocols are provided for the following areas: cardiovascular, diabetes mellitus, gastrointestinal, hypertensio

Prison Health Care: Youthful Offenders Sentenced as Adults [Lesson Plans]

Information and resources that address the unique challenges of providing health services to youthful offenders are provided through this 20-hour t

Correctional Health Care: Guidelines for the Management of an Adequate Delivery System

A comprehensive reference that provides guidance in the provision of health services to inmates is presented.

Understanding Managed Behavioral Health Care in Community Corrections [Videoconference Held July 17, 2002]

This program addresses behavior health care services for offenders under community supervision.

Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting, July 2002

Contents of these proceedings include:

Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting, February 2004

Contents of these proceedings include: meeting highlights; Domestic Preparedness and the Impact on Large Jails by Sue Menser; meeting participants

LJN Exchange, Annual Issue 2004; Large Jail Network Exchange, Annual Issue 2004

This issue includes: Foreword, by Richard Geaither, National Institute of Corrections Jails Division; You Can Do It: Putting an End to Pharmacy Cos

broadcast cover for Emergency Preparedness Self-Audit Checklist for Smaller Jails[and]Emergency Preparedness Self-Audit Checklist for Larger Jails

Reduce Costs, Lower Risks, Enhance Healthcare Services: The Promise of Effective Pharmaceutical Management [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]

As jurisdictions across the nation attempt to do more with less, the effects of pharmacy management today will have long lasting and costly effects

Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People

“The overall goal of the SOC [Standards of Care] is to provide clinical guidance for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender, and g

Opportunities for Cost Savings in Corrections Without Sacrificing Service Quality: Inmate Health Care

“This report lays out ways that departments of corrections can consider to reduce inmate medical costs without affecting high standards for inmate

Turning to telemedicine for prisoners' mental health treatment

Indeed, it's not just prisoners being treated for mental illness who feel a stigma—it's also their providers.

BOP Health Management Resources

This page supports the objectives of the Correctional Officers Health and Safety Act of 1998, which requires that the Attorney General and the Secr

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS)

Since its beginning Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) has worked to bridge the gap between correctional and community provide

National Commission on Correctional Health Care

The mission of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care is to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinem

Health Care after Incarceration

Most people leaving prison have at least one chronic problem with physical health, mental health, or substance use (Mallik-Kane and Visher 2008).

Mass Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America

Mass incarceration disproportionately impacts lower-income communities, communities of color, and persons with disabilities, creating a barrier to

Pharmaceuticals in State Prisons: How departments of corrections purchase, use, and monitor prescription drugs

In an effort to better understand the role of pharmaceuticals in the state correctional setting and budget, and in a state’s overall health care st

Jails: Inadvertent Health Care Providers

During 2015, the latest year for which data are available, there were 10.9 million admissions to these correctional facilities, which hold individu

Identifying High-Priority Needs to Reduce Mortality in Correctional Facilities

While some level of in-custody deaths are inevitable - for example, the passing of elderly inmates from old age - certain types of mortality are hi

Using Jail to Enroll Low-Income Men in Medicaid

This report describes the implementation and outcomes of a pilot study in Connecticut to enroll people who were arrested and detained pretrial into

NCCHC - Patient Safety 2016

Patient safety systems use redundancy (double checking) procedures to minimize errors and prevent adverse and near-miss clinical events.

Using Telehealth for Behavioral Health in the Criminal Justice System

This article explains how the use of telehealth - the interactive electronic exchange of information for diagnosis, treatment, support, or care man

NCCHC - Pregnancy and Postpartum Care in Correctional Settings

Approximately 6% to 10% of incarcerated women are pregnant on any given day, and it is estimated that as many as 1,400 women per year give birth wh

Hepatitis C elimination among people incarcerated in prisons: challenges and recommendations for action within a health systems framework (2021)

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global public health problem in correctional settings.

Ageing in imprisonment - Summary report

This report summarises the proceedings of the two-day meeting the ICRC organised in December 2016 on the needs of older prisoners.