“Hepatitis C, tuberculosis, HIV any of these blood borne communicable diseases tend to
promulgate in high density areas and prisons are becoming increasingly high density,” says …

Being caged puts prisoners in a vulnerable position with regard to their health care, says Dr.
Robert Greifinger, a prison health care consultant who was responsible for medical care at …

It is bad enough to go to jail, especially to one of the county or local facilities said to have
deplorable health care and other conditions. It is worse if you have pressing physical or …

Canada's prison population is expected to grow because of government legislation to
expand the number of crimes for which prison time is mandatory and to increase the …

Background While millions of individuals are concerned about the rising cost of health care
or lack of access to it, a recent article in The Houston Chronicle inflamed some readers even …

The enjoyment of the right to health in prison is most often conspicuous by its absence.
Those who doubt this claim should pick the country of their choice and scan random news …

While most Americans never see or become ensnared in the nation's vast correctional
system, there are unprecedented costs—economic, social, and ethical—that are being paid …

News more often than not support the principles but not any concrete changes (www. csc-
scc. gc. ca/text/pblct/ci11-12/ci11-12-eng. shtml). There have been countless examples of …

The United States correctional system is facing an urgent crisis in how to meet the health
care needs of its prisoners. As the number of inmates in correctional facilities increases …

With the passage of the Affordable Care Act—so-called Obamacare—the United States
moved toward what citizens in all other advanced industrial nations take for granted …