Department of Corrections Health Services
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 16, 2012
ANNOTATION: “The purpose of health services is to provide comprehensive medical, dental, mental health, and pharmaceutical services, including: health education, preventative care, and chronic illness clinics. The scope of health services ranges from preventive care, emergency care, inpatient hospitalization, and specialty care, as required” (p. 1). Topics discussed include: whether inmates get the same health care as citizens; routine health care that inmates receive; whether inmates pay for health services; whether all prisons provide health care; whether private providers deliver inmate health care; whether inmates are housed according to their health; whether they are tested for HIV/AIDS; whether inmates can be released from prison because of their health; cost-containment measures; inmate cost per day for health services; how the program is funded; and current issues—outsourcing inmate health care services and a plan to ban smoking.
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