NCJ Number
147252
Journal
Corrections Compendium Volume: 18 Issue: 5 Dated: (May 1993) Pages: 5-13
Date Published
1993
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This article contains data on health care services in United States prisons. Data were drawn from a survey of 46 States, and the Federal and District of Columbia systems.
Abstract
Statistics on health care services are presented in the following categories by State: (1) Annual inmate population; (2) New inmates processed; (3) Total Department of Corrections budget; (4) Total health care budget; (5) Health care cost per inmate; (6) Other services funded by health care budget; (7) How health care costs have affected the budget.