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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars

Expert perspectives on health in the prison system

Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
A Fabulous New Tool for Managing Substance Withdrawal in Jails

The guidelines have the potential to cause seismic change in treatment

July 17, 2023
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
The Opioid Treatment Dilemma in Jails

It comes down to funding -- but it's time for that to change

May 20, 2023
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
COVID-19 in Jails? It Might Get Ugly

Correctional facilities must be ready when the epidemic hits them

March 12, 2020
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
Myth Buster: Jails Deny Inmates Flu Shots

Why vaccination programs differ behind bars

December 19, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
The 'Bedtime Snack' for Inmates With Diabetes

Where do they get the idea that it's standard medical care?

October 24, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
What Really Went Wrong at Jeffrey Epstein's Jail

It wasn't just the guards' failure, suggests jail doctor Jeffrey Keller

August 16, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
The Rules of Verbal Jiu-Jitsu With Patients

How to deflect and defuse manipulative conversations

June 13, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
9 Types of Manipulative Patients

Know their tactics and be prepared

May 23, 2019
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Doing Time: Healthcare Behind Bars
The Last (Concrete) Resort for the Mentally Ill

Using jails as a stopgap is an expensive mistake

January 31, 2019
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