A growing number of correctional facilities train inmates to provide end-of-life care for dying inmates. This study explores the phenomenological perspective of inmate-caregivers participating in an inmate-facilitated hospice program (IFHP) with regard to meaning and purpose in life, attitudes on death and dying, and perceived personal impact of participation. Twenty-two inmate-caregivers were ...

Increasing numbers of women and adolescent females are incarcerated each year in the United States and they represent an increasing proportion of inmates in the U.S. correctional system. Incarcerated women and adolescent females often come from disadvantaged environments and have high rates of chronic illness, substance abuse, and undetected health problems. Most of these females are of reprodu...

The article by Michael S. Krelstein, MD, which presents the results of a nationwide survey examining the role of mental health professionals in the inmate disciplinary process, is a significant contribution to the correctional mental health literature. Dr. Krelstein succinctly summarizes the case law that has provided the framework for the prison disciplinary process. The Supreme Court’s curren...

Implementation of a treatment protocol for prescribing stimulant medications in adult prisons where such a protocol and oversight did not previously exist is prudent management, clinically relevant, and appropriate. There are multiple challenges to using controlled substances in correctional settings, many of them a consequence of the very high prevalence of substance use disorders among inmate...

The successful reintroduction of juvenile offenders from correctional facilities into the communities in which they live is fraught with challenges. It is, however, an essential process in which schools play a key role in ensuring the offender’s chances for success and the classroom’s status as a safe environment of learning. In fact, the transition that a juvenile offender makes from secure co...

Measuring and charging heat consumption are not often worked out in the prevalent warm-water heating systems. The developed modern heat-meter device, which includes microcontroller, is self-calibrating and self-testing, it uses several correctional algorithms in order to increase accuracy after authentication. Consumption data and information about the work-state events are logged and stored by...