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Health services - jails

The provision of medical, dental, and mental health services within jails facilities.

There are no NIC products associated with this term at this time.

  • 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.

  • 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