Allied health specialists including psychologists may be in greater demand within Australia’s corrections system going forward, based on indicators outlined in a new report on dementia in prison.

Nationwide, spending on health care and on corrections is putting serious pressure on state budgets. Medicaid—the largest component of states' health care spending—has been the fastest-growing part of state expenditures over the past two decades, with corrections a close second.

In a little-noticed outcome of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, jails and prisons around the country are beginning to sign up inmates for health insurance under the law, taking advantage of the expansion of Medicaid that allows states to extend coverage to single and childless adults — a major part of the prison population.

Using expensive new antivirals to treat hepatitis C in prisoners makes fiscal sense, a new paper says.

A new study finds that effective new hepatitis C drugs are so expensive the state of Rhode Island would have to spend almost twice its entire prison health budget to treat all its chronically infected inmates. Even providing the medicine only to the very sickest inmates who will remain in custody for at least another year would exceed the state prison system's pharmacy budget more than five times over.

New research by a UT Dallas criminologist has found that a substantial number of prison inmates have not received treatment for mental health conditions.

Correctional Healthcare Nurses Continuing Education Package

Child Trends, a research organization, released a report Tuesday estimating that 5 million U.S. children have had at least one parent imprisoned - about one in every 14 children under 18. For black children, the rate was one in nine, the report said.

An inmate who died only weeks after giving birth to a son and receiving an emergency hysterectomy complained of pain, but was ignored by jail staff, according to her family.