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Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities — A Limited …

(1 days ago) WEBA 2019 New Yorker article reported that 1500 lawsuits had been filed between 2013 and 2018 against two of the largest U.S. providers of jail health care (Corizon Health and Wellpath) for neglect

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252

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Foundations Help Improve Health In Prison And Jail And After …

(Just Now) WEBIn November 2020 the California Wellness Foundation awarded a three-year, $422,500 grant to TCN. The grantee’s model, described above, to help people about to leave …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01912

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Reforming Health Care for Patients in Prison - The Regulatory …

(5 days ago) WEBReverby reviews a 1974 study of prison health care conditions and concludes that many of the concerns identified— including too few physicians, lack of …

https://www.theregreview.org/2022/02/12/saturday-seminar-reforming-health-care-patients-prison/

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Criminal Justice Reform Is Health Care Reform - JAMA Network

(7 days ago) WEBHealth and the 2024 US Election. December 14, 2023. Criminal Justice Reform Is Health Care Reform. Lawrence A. Haber, MD 1,2; Chesa Boudin, JD 3; Brie A. Williams, MD, …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2813270

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How to Reform Correctional Mental Health Care

(1 days ago) WEBIn the corrections context, quality care for seriously mentally ill inmates requires strong relationships between clinical and correctional staff. Those professions …

https://manhattan.institute/article/how-to-reform-correctional-mental-health-care

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Providing Health Care at Reentry Is a Critical Step in …

(Just Now) WEBRecord-breaking overdose deaths and increasing mental health challenges highlight the urgent need for stronger behavioral health policies and systems. Policymakers are trying new approaches, …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/providing-health-care-reentry-critical-step-criminal-justice-reform

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Prison And Jail Reentry And Health Health Affairs

(9 days ago) WEBThis creates challenges related to public health, housing, education, and employment for reentering people, families, and the communities hit hard by mass …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20210928.343531

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Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for …

(5 days ago) WEBA new paper published in the March 2 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine argues a minimal standard for inmate health care established in a 1976 Supreme Court ruling could soon be struck …

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/supreme-court-may-halt-health-care-guarantees-for-inmates/

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How Health Care Reform Can Transform The Health Of Criminal …

(3 days ago) WEBThe United States continues to have the world’s highest incarceration rates. Growing concern over this epidemic of incarceration 1,2 led the National Research Council in …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034754/

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Reforming Healthcare for Former Prisoners Journal of - Springer

(9 days ago) WEBAchieving continuity of care for former prisoners would require several policy changes: First, to prevent delays in care related to insurance status after prison release, …

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-014-2816-y

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Correctional Healthcare National Institute of Corrections

(5 days ago) WEBWith the rates of incarceration skyrocketing, the need for effective and more efficient correctional healthcare services has skyrocketed. Many health problems that plague …

https://nicic.gov/resources/resources-topics-and-roles/topics/correctional-healthcare

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The Inmate Exception and Reform of Correctional Health Care

(3 days ago) WEBThe inmate exception exempts correctional health care from this requirement, resulting in poor health care oversight. Inmates suffer the consequences. Suicide accounts for a …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296706/

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Public Health Considerations for Correctional Health

(6 days ago) WEBCorrectional health is community health. CDC provides treatment guidelines and other correctional health resources. Correctional health encompasses all aspects …

https://www.cdc.gov/correctional-health/about/index.html

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion …

(4 days ago) WEBThe Humane Correctional Health Care Act (H.R.3514), introduced in May of 2021, would repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy and thus provide incarcerated …

https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/01/26/medicaid-inmate-exclusion-policy/

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Reforming Healthcare for Former Prisoners - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBBefore 2014, most former prisoners lacked health insurance. 3 This can be expected to change with healthcare reform. Approximately 730,000 prisoners are …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4099449/

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Improving mental health for inmates

(6 days ago) WEBAbout 37 percent of people in prison have a history of mental health problems, according to a 2017 report from the U.S. Department of Justice. More than 24 percent have been …

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/03/mental-heath-inmates

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Rutgers Provides Hope for Ex-Offenders Navigating Recovery and …

(2 days ago) WEBFor more than a decade, Rutgers has provided physical and mental health care to more than 19,000 of New Jersey’s inmates. The NJDOC asked Rutgers to create the IRTS …

https://impact.rutgers.edu/irts/

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Mental Health Treatment in Correctional Facilities

(2 days ago) WEBMHA believes that this standard does not sufficiently protect the rights of inmates and that confinement in a correctional facility should not entail the loss of the basic right to non …

https://www.mhanational.org/issues/mental-health-treatment-correctional-facilities

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Department of Justice Archive Prison Reform: Reducing …

(6 days ago) WEBPrioritizing mental health treatment for inmates. BOP is working to overhaul its policies on the treatment and care of inmates with mental illness. Among other …

https://www.justice.gov/archives/prison-reform

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Broward Public Defender urges better services for mentally ill …

(Just Now) WEBBroward public defender keeps up drumbeat for better services for mentally ill inmates in jail. Calls for reform, increased staffing and resources for Broward’s four jail …

https://www.wusf.org/courts-law/2024-05-20/broward-county-public-defender-gordon-weekes-better-services-mentally-ill-inmates-jail-sheriff-gregory-tony

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Advocates For Inmates LLC

(6 days ago) WEBADVOCATES FOR INMATES LLC. National and local resources related to inmate corrections, prisoner rights, and prisoner advocacy. Prisoners are a population with …

https://www.advocatesforinmates.com/

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For Markus Johnson, Prison and Mental Illness Equaled a Death …

(7 days ago) WEBIt was 1:19 p.m. on Sept. 6, 2019, in the Danville Correctional Center, a medium-security prison a few hours south of Chicago. Mr. Johnson, 21 and serving a …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/us/politics/prison-mental-health-care.html

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Nonemergency Involuntary Antipsychotic Medication in Prison

(1 days ago) WEBAffiliations 1 Dr. Salem is Northern Regional Director of Psychiatry and Dr. Reeves is Director of Psychiatry, Rutgers-University Correctional Health Care (UCHC), …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26071504/

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Multi-Level Barriers to Prison Mental Health and Physical Health …

(3 days ago) WEBResults. Participants (n = 43) identified challenges to utilizing health and mental health care including perceived access and quality of mental health, medical, or …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9203858/

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NJ panel reviews reform strategies to ease inmate’s - Corrections1

(6 days ago) WEBGovernor Christie's announced that his administration plans to open assistance centers for former offenders

https://www.corrections1.com/corrections/articles/nj-panel-reviews-reform-strategies-to-ease-inmates-life-after-prison-BIdtQOGFSESD7PSK/

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U.S. Marshals Service Policy Directive - Prisoner Health Care

(Just Now) WEBU.S. Marshals Service 1215 S. Clark St. Arlington, VA 22202. The Honorable Colette S. Peters Director Federal Bureau of Prisons. U.S. Department of Justice 320 …

https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2024-05-16_-_member_letter_on_healthcare_for_marshall_and_idoni.pdf

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Update: $25 California health care minimum wage could be delayed

(2 days ago) WEBGov. Gavin Newsom is cutting it close. He signed a law last fall that phases in a $25 minimum wage for California’s lowest-paid health care workers beginning June 1. …

https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/minimum-wage-health-care-deadline/

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Why Madera County, California spends millions on inmate care

(8 days ago) WEBThe county’s 2023-2024 budget allocated $300,000 to the Sheriff’s Office to pay for private security for inmates in health-care facilities. Madera County Assistant …

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article288399420.html

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NEW: U.S. House Approves McBath, Armstrong Bipartisan Prison …

(7 days ago) WEBWashington, D.C. — Legislation led by Representatives Lucy McBath (D-GA-07) and Kelly Armstrong (R-ND-AL) overhauling the federal prison system was approved today by the …

https://mcbath.house.gov/2024/5/new-u-s-house-approves-mcbath-armstrong-bipartisan-prison-safety-bill-ossoff-durbin-and-braun-lead-senate-companion

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Ron Mariano: Mass. House should pass health reform bill - The …

(3 days ago) WEBAlthough the Commonwealth’s landmark 2006 health care reform law went on to serve as a model for the Affordable Care Act, we never became complacent, an …

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/15/opinion/health-reform-bill-massachusetts-steward-ronald-mariano/

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How to Reform Correctional Mental Health Care

(7 days ago) WEBThe goal of these programs is to divert the seriously mentally ill from deeper involvement in the criminal justice system. Those for whom diversion fails wind up in jails and prisons. …

https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/how-to-reform-correctional-mental-health-care.pdf

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In reform of health care system, Mass. should clear path for PAs

(9 days ago) WEBIn reform of health care system, Mass. should clear path for PAs. Updated May 20, 2024, 2:20 a.m. In their May 15 op-ed, “Health care in Massachusetts is in …

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-health-care-reform-physician-associates/

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Dental care and insurance costs too much. ACA rule could change …

(2 days ago) WEBUnder Biden's rule, states have until 2025 to decide whether to mandate that insurers cover dental benefits for adults. The dental benefits would not take effect until …

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/05/20/dental-care-insurance-costs-too-much-aca-rule/73766660007/

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Senate's new controversial patent reform target - Axios

(9 days ago) WEBSens. Chris Coons and Thom Tillis are pushing a pair of bills that they say are essential to overhauling the patent process, including for drugs and genomics, but that …

https://www.axios.com/pro/health-care-policy/2024/05/20/patent-reform-bills-drug-industry

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