In February 2014, the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor released a legislatively mandated report evaluation prison-based health services delivered by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC). DOC provides extensive medical, dental, and mental health services to offenders. The report founds that there is considerable room for improvement in the coordination of services to chronically ill inmates, the adequacy of mental health services, and DOC’s compliance with generally accepted professional standards for correctional health care. In addition, DOC’s medical, dental, and mental health services operate with limited external oversight—for example, they are not subject to licensure . . .

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Correctional Health Care, Reentry & Diversion Services

The corrections health care, re-entry, and diversion market is defined as the provision of medical and behavioural health services to the incarcerated, services to ease the transition back into the community, and diversion services related to decreasing or avoiding jail time for certain offences. The corrections market faces a number of challenges including the high number of individuals with serious mental illness, an increasingly female population, providing adequate care, and helping former inmates adapt and succeed in the community.


In November 2025, Correctional Health Services, which provides medical and behavioral health treatment at the Los Angeles County jails, implemented a new policy for buprenorphine for opioid use disorder that restricts how physicians prescribe the medication, according to a recent news report. Under the new policy, priority for medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder is given to people when they first enter the jail system. Those who accept buprenorphine MAT on intake receive… Read