The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the lack of resources and oversight that hinders medical care for incarcerated people in the United States. The US Supreme Court has held that “deliberate indifference” to “serious medical needs” violates the Constitution. But this legal standard does not assure the consistent provision of health care services. This leads the United States to fall behind European nations that define universal standards of care grounded in principles of human rights and the ideal of equivalence that incarcerated and non-incarcerated people are entitled to the same health care.
Drawing on a normative analysis and empirical research, this talk describes an incremental strategy based on expanding Medicaid into correctional facilities and improving comprehensive oversight that would move closer to the normative ideal without resolving many of the thorny problems of correctional health care.
Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds
12:15 to 1:30 pm CT
Title:
Not Equivalent, But Better: Human Rights and Health Care Behind Bars in the Time of COVID
Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds
Date + Time of Free Continuing Legal Education Webinar:
September 23, 202212:15 to 1:30 pm CT
Speaker:
Dr. Brendan Saloner - Bloomberg Associate Professor of American Health, Dept. of Health and Policy Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Want to learn more about Dr. Saloner's work on this topic? Read his publication "A Human Rights Framework for Advancing the Standard of Medical Care for Incarcerated People in the United States in the Time of COVID-19"
Credit:
1 CLE credit of Elimination of Bias is pending - #470319
You may be able to self-apply for credit in other jurisdictions.
By:
University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics, Human Rights Center, Program in Health Disparities Research, Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, School of Public Health, School of Nursing, Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, and Medical School.
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