Corrections & Care

It’s hard to get a bead on in-facility corrections health care services. There are no uniform standards for health care in corrections facilities and no mechanism for reporting comparable performance or quality data between facilities (see Prison Health Care: Costs And Quality).

One of the only means for improving corrections health care is consumer/prisoner litigation, according to a new white paper, Cut-rate Care: The Systemic Problems Shaping 'Healthcare' Behind Bars. Since 2000, roughly half of all state prison systems have been court-ordered to improve mental and medical health care. Alabama prisons have been the subject . . .