Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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"EVERYONE HEARS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS": HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PERSPECTIVES ON PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY IN U.S. PRISONS AND JAILS.

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Confidentiality in correctional health care emerges from this interview data not as an occasional lapse but as a condition clinicians routinely work around, and the finding that practitioners themselves disagree about how far it should yield to custodial concerns bears on what institutions can treat as the settled standard of care behind the wall.

J Correct Health Care. 2026;32(5):328-338.