Mass incarceration is a public health crisis that harms the health and well-being of incarcerated people, corrections staff, ...

The new pharmacy, overseen by the Department of Public Health Jail Health Services, will serve over 14,000 people annually. The pharmacy can now provide a minimum 30-day supply of prescribed ...

Public health ... million youth jail to Public Health – Seattle & King County, stating, “By using a Public Health model, we will be able to do more. This is not just about services for ...

That's 6 percent of the agency's budget, funded by public ... Health Services, a physician-owned, politically connected company based in South Florida. It's the biggest jail medical care provider ...

NaphCare has provided physical and mental health services at the jail since 2017 ... and $500,000 for public information. None of those items was proposed for a vote Wednesday.

Christine Schuyler, county public health director, and County Sheriff Joe Gerace discuss plans to transfer jail medical services from the Sheriff’s Office to the Health and Human Services Department ...

Following the suicide of an inmate last month, Broward County’s Public Defender ... requiring mental health services, which he estimated to be almost half the jail population.

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department's director, Dr. Mouhanad Hammami, talks about the challenges with hiring staff to monitor jail health care services. He noted that they recently ...