Inmates

NOTE: Some listings include a link to a related Promoting Excellence demonstration project.

Articles
Bick J. “Managing Pain and End-of-Life Care for Inmate Patients: The California Medical Facility Experience.” Journal of Correctional Health Care: Special Issue: End-of-Life Care in Corrections, 9(2): 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

Byock I. “Dying Well in Corrections: Why Should We Care?” Journal of Correctional Health Care: Special Issue: End-of-Life Care in Corrections, 9(2): 2002.

Caramanis C. “Offering Viable Solutions for the Elderly Inmate Population.” The Corrections Connection, February, 1999. www.corrections.com
(Volunteers of America)

Cody E and Ratcliff M. “Pain Management for Dying Inmate Patients.” Correctional Health Care Report, 2 (2): 2001.
(Volunteers of America)

Cohn F. “The Ethics of End-of-Life Care for Prison Inmates.” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 27: 252-259, 1999.
(Volunteers of America)

Craig R. “Easing the Passage: The Chaplain’s View of Prison Hospice.” Journal of Correctional Health Care: Special Issue: End-of-Life Care in Corrections, 9(2): 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

Craig E and Craig R. “Prison Hospice: An Unlikely Success.” American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, 16: 725-729, 1999.
(Volunteers of America)

Craig E and Ratcliff M. “Controversies in Correctional End-of-Life Care.” Journal of Correctional Health Care: Special Issue: End-of-Life Care in Corrections, 9(2): 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

Gaseau M. “Inmate Hospice: An Alternative for a Growing Elderly and Chronically Ill Population.” The Corrections Connection, February, 1999. www.corrections.com
(Volunteers of America)

O’Neill J, Aktar M, Poliquin L. “Terminally Ill Offenders: An International Dialogue.” Journal of Correctional Health Care: Special Issue: End-of-Life Care in Corrections, 9(2): 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

Ratcliff M. “Caring for the Terminally Ill Inmate.” Correctional Health Care Report, 2(1): 2000.
(Volunteers of America)

Ratcliff M. “Dying Inside the Walls.” Innovations in End-of-Life Care, 2(3): 2000 and Journal of Palliative Medicine, 3(4): 2000.
(Volunteers of America)

Ratcliff M. “Hospice in Prisons – The U.S. Experience.” Hospice Information Bulletin, August 2002. London: The Hospice Information Service, St Christopher’s Hospice.
(Volunteers of America)

Ratcliff M and Cohn F. “Hospice with GRACE: Reforming Care for Terminally Ill Inmates.” Corrections Today, February 2000.
(Volunteers of America)

Ratcliff M and Craig E. “The GRACE Project: Guiding End-of-Life Care in Corrections 1998-2001.” Journal of Palliative Medicine, 7(2): 2004.
(Volunteers of America)

Ratcliff M and Rosefield HA. “Terminally Ill Inmates: Testing a New Approach.” American Jails, January/February 2001.
(Volunteers of America)

Schmidt L. “Providing End-of-Life Care in Prison Settings.” Last Acts 7, http://www.lastacts.org/statsite/5147la_eln_newsletter.html
(Volunteers of America)

Taylor P. “Grief and Hospice Care for the Correctional Community: Training, Nurturing, and Mentoring of Staff.” Journal of Correctional Health Care: Special Issue: End-of-Life Care in Corrections, 9(2) Summer 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

Reports
End-of-Life Care Standards of Practice in Correctional Settings, 2001. GRACE Project, Alexandria, VA: Volunteers of American http://www.graceprojects.org/graceprojects/standards_intro.htm
(Volunteers of America)

Incarceration of the Terminally Ill: Current Practices in the United States, 2001. GRACE Project, Alexandria, VA: Volunteers of American. http://www.graceprojects.org
(Volunteers of America)

Bibliographies
Craig R and Craig E. “Palliative Care in Corrections: An Annotated Bibliography.” October, 2001, www.graceprojects.org
(Volunteers of America)

News Coverage
"A Hospice Behind Bars at Oakdale.” The Daily Iowan, Oakdale, Iowa, January 24, 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

“Behind Bars, New Effort to Care for the Dying,” New York Times, April 1, 2001. Iowa City Press-Citizen, Oakdale, Iowa, January 24, 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

“Inmates Begin Hospice Work,” Iowa City Press-Citizen, Oakdale, Iowa, January 24, 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

“NCCHC Award Winners Lauded in 2001 National Conference: Program of the Year Award: Hospice Program: Oregon State Penitentiary,” Correct Care, Chicago, Illinois, Winter 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

“Oakdale Forms One-of-a-Kind Prison Hospice,” Iowa City Press-Citizen, Oakdale, Iowa, January 28, 2002.
(Volunteers of America)

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.