Cooperation Between Medical and Correctional Stakeholders

To the Editor Medical care is typically a private matter; however, when we care for individuals who are incarcerated, a third actor is forcibly introduced into the space between patient and clinician—a state agent tasked with maintaining custody of the patient, and beholden to correctional not medical standards. The care of incarcerated individuals in community medical centers tends to illuminate this complex medical−correctional interface.

from JAMA Internal Medicine Online First https://ift.tt/QM9s1UG