Inmate Health Care
Health Care is an issue in U.S. correctional facilities. It is a constitutional right of inmates to receive appropriate healthcare while incarcerated. Yet many inmates receive no health care at all and often are charged exhorbitant fees in order to receive the health care they need.
This page contains links to information and articles on inmate healthcare issues.
Organizatons
National Commissison on Correctional Health Care: committed to improving the quality of health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities.
Articles
Charging Inmates a Fee for Health Care Services: Position Statement from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care
Deal would overhaul health care for inmates: Recordnet.com staff report, May 28, 2009
Deep cuts proposed for California prison healthcare plan: Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2009
Hard Time and Health Care: The Squeeze on Medicine Behind Bars: E.Bernadette McKinney, JD, PhD, February 2008
Health Status and Access to Care for Inmates is Substandard Across the Country: Wilper AP, Woolhandler S, Boyd JW, et al. The health and health care of US prisoners: results of a nationwide survey. Am J Public Health 2009 Jan 15
Inmate health care at Marion jail improves under community group: Nonprofit partnership that replaced private contractor now seen as model for other facilities – Cala.com report
Passing prisoners (and the health-care buck) to nursing homes in Ohio: Sentencing Law and Policy Blog, with links to other articles about aging prisoners.
Slipshod health-records system puts welfare of inmates at risk: by JJ Hensley and Yvonne Wingett – Jun. 1, 2009 – The Arizona Republic
U.S. Inmates Suffer from Chronic Illness and Poor Access to Health Care: New study from Harvard Medical School researchers at Cambridge Health Alliance suggests that under-treatment of mental illness contributes to crime and incarceration, January 2009
Why Prisoners Deserve Health Care: Joseph E. Paris, PhD, MD, February 2008
