A curated, growing directory of the most valuable material in correctional medicine — books, journal articles, clinical guidelines, and education for current and aspiring providers.
How a medical-school and jail-system partnership in New York City trains physicians to care for incarcerated patients and advocate for them.
Open resourceAn ethnographic study of how clinical care inside carceral settings can function as a form of discipline, and what that means for providers.
Open resourceMakes the case for embedding correctional health care into medical-school and residency training, and outlines what such curricula should cover.
Open resourceBourgois et al. give clinicians a practical framework and assessment tool for recognizing how social structures shape patient health.
Open resourceSurveys how U.S. medical schools teach about criminal justice and health, revealing wide gaps in formal correctional-medicine instruction.
Open resourceEvaluates a Project ECHO telementoring program supporting the providers who treat justice-involved adults with opioid use disorder.
Open resourceThe BOP's complete library of clinical guidance documents — the source page for every individual guideline listed below.
Open resourceWHO/Europe's program advancing equivalence of care — that incarcerated people receive the same standard of care as the wider community — and integrating prison health into public health.
Open resourceSAMHSA's authoritative protocol on the three FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder: methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone.
Open resourceA field guide of promising practices for implementing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in jail settings.
Open resourceA BJA field resource for safely screening, monitoring, and treating alcohol and drug withdrawal in jail settings.
Open resourceThe academic consortium advancing criminal-justice health education and research, including teaching modules for students and trainees.
Open resourceA ready-to-use, peer-reviewed selective course introducing preclinical medical students to health care in carceral settings.
Open resourceGeorge Washington University's hub of correctional-medicine electives and educational opportunities for medical students.
Open resourceA telementoring model linking academic specialists with frontline clinicians in rural prisons and jails through case-based virtual clinics.
Open resourceTrains incarcerated peer educators to teach fellow residents about infectious disease, hepatitis C, and substance use — expanding health literacy and HCV treatment inside prisons.
Open resourceA teleECHO learning community helping rural jail teams implement medication for opioid use disorder, from operational barriers to post-release continuity.
Open resourceThe long-running practical blog on the day-to-day clinical realities of jail and prison medicine, now stewarded by ACCP.
Open resourceThe landmark account of how the U.S. criminal-justice system functions as a system of racial control — essential context for the field.
Open resourceA concise, influential argument examining the prison-industrial complex and alternatives to incarceration.
Open resourceThe definitive reference on delivering mental-health care in correctional settings, spanning clinical, legal, and systems topics.
Open resourceA broad scholarly survey of the U.S. corrections system — policy, populations, and practice — useful for orienting to the wider field.
Open resourceA curated collection of the most useful Jail Medicine essays — a friendly on-ramp for clinicians new to correctional medicine.
Open resourceA transatlantic history of how the corrections profession was invented and how law came to define the limits of punishment and the rights of the incarcerated.
Open resourceA comprehensive clinical reference on the conditions, protocols, and care-delivery challenges specific to jails and prisons.
Open resourceArgues that prison health and community health are inseparable, surveying how care behind bars shapes population health on the outside.
Open resourceA practical clinical reference on assessing and treating mental illness across correctional settings.
Open resourceAn award-winning undercover account of working as a guard inside a private prison, exposing the business of punishment.
Open resourceThe APA's authoritative guidelines for delivering psychiatric care in jails and prisons, covering segregation, seclusion and restraint, and telepsychiatry.
Open resourceA practical, evidence-based guide to reducing clinical error, managing risk, and improving quality in correctional health care.
Open resourceA foundational reference manual on building and administering a correctional health care delivery system — standards, staffing, policy, and program implementation.
Open resourceThe comprehensive guide to prisoners' legal rights and how to litigate civil-rights claims, widely used by advocates and the incarcerated.
Open resourceA practical clinical and legal guide to preventing suicide in custody and to the litigation that follows it.
Open resourceA classic on how incarcerated people manipulate and compromise correctional staff — and how to recognize the patterns.
Open resourceA former NYC jail chief medical officer documents the health harms incarceration inflicts on those held at Rikers.
Open resourceThe memoir of Nevada's first female prison physician across three decades of correctional practice.
Open resourceA witty firsthand account of practicing medicine inside a Colorado supermax prison.
Open resourceTracy Kidder chronicles Dr. Jim O'Connell's decades caring for Boston's unhoused — a study in medicine for the marginalized.
Open resourceEssays by a British prison doctor and psychiatrist on criminality, his patients, and cultural decline.
Open resourceAn ethnography of how jail paradoxically becomes a health-care safety net for incarcerated women.
Open resourceA clinical podcast episode on caring for incarcerated patients, with practical pearls for providers new to correctional medicine.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on evaluating and treating acne in correctional settings.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on diagnosing and managing adult ADHD in custody, including controlled-substance considerations.
Open resourceBOP protocol for safe anticoagulation therapy and monitoring in correctional settings.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on responsible antimicrobial use to curb resistance in correctional facilities.
Open resourceBOP clinical practice guideline for diagnosing and managing asthma in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceBOP guidance for classifying patients by medical and mental-health care level for appropriate placement.
Open resourceBOP criteria for compassionate release of elderly patients with serious medical conditions.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on screening for and treating depression in correctional populations.
Open resourceBOP clinical practice guideline for managing diabetes in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceBOP guidance on prescribing and managing durable medical equipment in custody.
Open resourceBOP guidance on preventing and treating heat-related illness in correctional facilities.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on preventing and managing hepatitis A, including outbreak response.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on screening for and treating hepatitis C in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceBOP clinical practice guideline for managing hypertension in correctional settings.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on recommended immunizations for incarcerated populations.
Open resourceBOP guidance on infection control and environment of care in correctional dental settings.
Open resourceBOP protocol for identifying and treating lice in correctional facilities.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on lipid screening and management in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceBOP guidance on evaluating and managing food allergies in custody.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on measles prevention, identification, and outbreak response.
Open resourceBOP guidance on prescribing therapeutic and medically necessary diets.
Open resourceBOP guidance on managing occupational and other exposures to HIV, hepatitis B and C, bites, and sexual assault.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on identifying and treating malnutrition in custody.
Open resourceBOP guidance on nutritional management following bariatric surgery.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on treating opioid use disorder, including medication-assisted treatment.
Open resourceBOP guidance on evaluating and managing common eye conditions in correctional settings.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on assessing and managing acute and chronic pain in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on poliovirus prevention and response.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on preventing and managing acute and chronic wounds.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on preventive health screening for incarcerated patients.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on managing respiratory communicable illnesses in correctional facilities.
Open resourceBOP guidance on responding to foodborne illness outbreaks in correctional settings.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on identifying and treating scabies in custody.
Open resourceBOP clinical practice guideline for tuberculosis screening, prevention, and treatment.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on varicella zoster prevention and management.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on medically supervised withdrawal for patients with substance use disorder.
Open resourceBOP clinical guidance on Zika virus prevention and management.
Open resourceThe complete ADCRR clinical practice guidelines manual — the source document for every Arizona guideline listed below.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on therapeutic anticoagulation, including LMWH and DOAC selection and monitoring.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on managing coronary artery disease in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on screening for and managing hyperlipidemia.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on diagnosing and managing hypertension in custody.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on screening for and treating chronic hepatitis C.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on managing HIV in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on screening for and treating latent tuberculosis infection.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on evaluating and managing chronic liver disease.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on managing diabetes mellitus in custody.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on laboratory monitoring of commonly prescribed medications.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on providing gender-affirming care to incarcerated patients.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on trauma-informed care for survivors of trauma.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on assessing and treating anxiety disorders in custody.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on managing bipolar disorder in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on screening for and treating depression.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on managing schizophrenia in custody.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on managing chronic kidney disease in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on evaluating and managing seizure disorders.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on assessing and managing chronic pain in custody.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on preventive health screening and services.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on diagnosing and managing asthma in incarcerated patients.
Open resourceADCRR guidance on managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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