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| Prisons fail to upgrade health care |
| By delawareonline.com |
| Published: 09/29/2009 |
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There are volumes of reports about civil rights violations at the Delaware Department of Correction -- many of them point to some improvement in inmate health care. Suicide-prevention training for guards has expanded. The prison created its own Bureau of Correctional HealthCare Services to supervise and audit medical programs. Psychiatric screening, and the administration of psychotropic medication, is more closely monitored today than it was three years ago. Prison health care has changed in Delaware, but one thing is the same -- the state still pays the same private company millions of dollars to run its prison hospitals. Today, the federally appointed prison monitor will release his second-to-last report on the state of health care in Delaware's prisons. And while Correction Commissioner Carl Danberg and the state's outside medical contractor both tout strides made since 2006, critics such as the Rev. Christopher Bullock, a founder of the Delaware Coalition for Prison Reform and Justice, said he expects little good news. Read More. |
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