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Abstract: 

The complete issue version includes links from table of contents entries to all articles listed in the contents above, and linked article continuations, to facilitate reading. In addition to the separately listed articles above, the complete issue also includes brief coverage of Davis v. Prison Health Services, Inc., a 3rd Circuit ruling in a Pennsylvania case in which the court upheld summary judgment for defendants where Davis, a diabetic inmate, failed to show deliberate indifference when his medication was discontinued for 10 days and then restored; Nunes v. Massachusetts DOC,766 F.3d 134 (1st Cir. 2014) in which the court upheld the departments change from a “Keep on Person” to a “daily med line” medication dispensing policy, made for cost-saving reasons but found to have no adverse impact on health delivery; and Brons v. United States, a federal district court ruling that the federal government may be liable, under a Federal Torts Claim, for negligent hiring in a case involving an alleged sex predator physician accused of abusing inmates in his care.

Keywords: Correctional dental care; diabetes care; HIV/AIDS/HCV treatment; Federal Torts Claim Act; dispensing policy

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.