"We have asked the Federal Department of Prisons to provide some assessment of prison health care services and how they are being carried out," Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington ...

An acute failing of the healthcare needs of Aboriginal ... and Gunditjmara artist dies in Victorian prison Another man, serving time at Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP), was punished with ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s request to take over California’s prison health care system ... vision screening, and a risk assessment for chronic diseases. Women get pap and pelvic exams every ...

Another prisoner, at the Melbourne Assessment Prison, told the Ombudsman ... of significant prison healthcare reforms. “We take our duty of care to all people in custody seriously,” the ...

The Victorian government has entered into a fresh agreement outsourcing health care in publicly run prisons ... woman before she died in a Melbourne prison cell in January 2020.

An independent assessment of health care at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna found an insufficient “sick call” process — including lengthy wait times and outdated technology. The ...

Forensicare provides mental health care in Victorian prisons ... before his death – Reker was remanded in the Melbourne Assessment Prison, where authorities gave him the highest risk rating ...

On any given day, more than 200,000 women are living behind prison or jail walls. Thousands of these women are pregnant and depend on correctional authorities for their health care, and correctional .

What we didn’t know as he entered prison was that navigating the maddening world of corrections health care might not be enough to keep him healthy, and that even a short prison term can easily ...