Prisoner Health Services

Federal Bureau of Prisons

• USDOJ, OIG Audit Report: The Federal Bureau of Prison’s Efforts to Manage Inmate Health Care - February 2008 (large pdf)
• USDOJ, OIG Semiannual Report to Congress - BOP’s Efforts to Manage Health Care Costs - March 2008
• Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Medical Care
• Metal Health Treatment & Counseling

National Organizations

• National Commission on Correctional Health Care
• American Correctional Associations’ Standards for Health Services

Connecticut Department of Corrections

• Administrative Directive Chapter 8 - Health Care Service, Hygiene and Sanitation

• Administrative Directive 9.6 - Inmate Administrative Remedies (English & Spanish pdfs) in Chapter 9 - Classification

• Health & Addiction Services

Researching Mental Health and Medical Issues

• Perlin, Michael (2008). Mental Health Issues in Jails & Prisons: Cases & Materials - KF9731 .P47 - L4
• DSM (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders DSM-IV) - e-books from the DSM library via Psychiatry Online (Yale subscription) | Also available in print through YUL
• Consult Lexis’s Total Litigator Database for medical research and search by injury/disorder. 
• Westlaw’s Medical Litigator Database
• PubMed - service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MedLine and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948; includes links to full text articles and other related resources
• MedLine - produced by the National Library of Medicine; provides extensive coverage of the world’s biomedical journal literature (Yale subscription)
• Web of Science - thousand of science journals (Yale subscription)
• Yale Medical Library homepage - quick access to medical databases, ejournals and other materials

News and Reports

• Harsh Medicine - New York Times three-part series by Paul von Zielbauer and an editorial on health care in NY prisons:
  • As Health Care in Prison goes Private, 10 days can be a Death Sentence - Feb. 27, 2005

  • In City’s Jails, Missed Signals Open Wy to Season of Suicides - Feb. 28, 2005

  • A Spotty Resord of Health Care at Juvenile Sites in New York - March 1, 2005 

  • Death Behind Bars

• Evaluation of Medical Care Provider in the City’s Jail is Questioned - NYT, Paul von Zielbauer - Dec. 26, 2005

• Jail Health Care Fails Again - NYT, Paul von Zielbauer, Jan. 27, 2006

• Democracy Now interview with Paul von Zielbaur

• Prison Activist Resource Center: Medical Neglect Behind Bars

Internet Resources

• HIV/AIDS in Prisons links

• Right to Medical Care (begins on p.18 of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual - pdf)

• Prisoner Diabetes Handbook - for prisoners by prisoners (pdf)