Tag: Prisons

A West Virginia physician pleaded guilty June 23 to two counts of assault and was sentenced to a year of probation. Kenneth C. Ramdat, MD, a physician formerly employed at the Louis A. Johnson VA Hospital, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, admitted to assaulting two hospital employees, according to a news release from the Department of

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado bill aims to improve healthcare for pregnant women, including those who are incarcerated, less than three years since a woman filed a federal lawsuit after giving birth in a Denver jail cell with no medical care. Diana Sanchez gave birth alone in her jail cell in July 2018 after deputies

More hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment in correctional facilities, a possibility if medication costs were to drop, is essential to controlling the hepatitis C epidemic in the US, according to researchers from the Rollins School of Public Health and Harvard University. In a new paper published in the June 2018 edition of the Infectious Disease

Nurses across Britain are getting high and passing out while treating prisoners who have taken the drug Spice. Medical staff are being put at risk by the epidemic in use of the potent synthetic cannabis in jails with some treating 50 inmates a week. The Royal College of Nursing is calling for more protection for