Ethical Dilemmas In Prison And Jail Health Care
Vol. 33|No. 3
- From the Founding Editor
- Entry Point: Aging With HIV
- ACA: More HIV Testing
- Non-Expansion States And HIV
- Lives Saved By Early Treatment
- Cost Savings And Early Treatment
- Targeting Resources For Prevention
- Survey: HIV Testing In Jails
- ACA Can Help The Jail-Involved
- The ACA And Healthier Jail Populations
- Overcoming Barriers To Post-Jail Care
- Using HIT To Improve Jail Health Delivery
- Narrative Matters: Life Beyond Jail Walls
- View Table of Contents »
Editor’s note: This post is published in conjunction with the March issue of Health Affairs, which features a cluster of articles on jails and health.
Prison and jail health care, despite occasional pockets of inspiration, provided by programs affiliated with academic institutions, is an arena of endless ethical conflict in which health care providers must negotiate relentlessly with prison officials to provide necessary and decent care. The “right to health care” articulated by the Supreme Court pre-ordained these ongoing tensions. The court reasoned that to place persons in prison or jail, where they could not secure their own care, and then to fail to provide that care, could result in precisely the pain and suffering prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/03/10/ethical-dilemmas-in-prison-and-jail-health-care/
