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
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Administrative Directive Chapter 8 - Health Care Service, Hygiene and Sanitation
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Administrative Directive 9.6 - Inmate Administrative Remedies (English & Spanish pdfs) in Chapter 9 - Classification
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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:
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In City’s Jails, Missed Signals Open Wy to Season of Suicides - Feb. 28, 2005
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A Spotty Resord of Health Care at Juvenile Sites in New York - March 1, 2005
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Evaluation of Medical Care Provider in the City’s Jail is Questioned - NYT, Paul von Zielbauer - Dec. 26, 2005
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Jail Health Care Fails Again - NYT, Paul von Zielbauer, Jan. 27, 2006
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Democracy Now interview with Paul von Zielbaur
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Internet Resources
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Right to Medical Care (begins on p.18 of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual - pdf)
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Prisoner Diabetes Handbook - for prisoners by prisoners (pdf)