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requests that are communicated verbally are kept
confidential.
• The prison should ensure that the health service has
a waiting room that accommodates personal security
and privacy needs.
• The prison should arrange for inmates to come on
schedule to appointments with the health service or
specialist health services, unless the inmates themselves wish to cancel.
• With assistance from its health service, the prison
should design a system for regular officer training in
the distribution of medications.
• The prison and health service should cooperate in
maintaining control over the entire process of distributing medications. Uniform written procedures should
be established for reporting and following up on the
handling of medications, including any deviations
from procedure.
• The health service should become involved in
public health efforts and other environmental health
matters in the prison. The health service can use its
expertise to help improve inmate living conditions.
Special attention should be given to inmates who are
especially vulnerable to illness or injury, including
those with disabilities.
• The prison should make sure psychologists have
offices suitable to maintaining confidentiality.
• The prison should ensure that as much information
as possible is communicated to the health service so
that health personnel can document and follow up
the mental health conditions of vulnerable inmates.
The health service and the prison should cooperate
on preparing a plan to identify and monitor the needs
of the most psychologically vulnerable inmates.
Psychologists should also be given the opportunity to
perform outreach in communal activities.
• Inmates with mental disorders should be provided the
opportunity to receive satisfactory health care.
• The prison should establish systematic competence in
supervising foreign inmates to ensure that they do not
become isolated.
• Inmates with disabilities should be provided with
accommodation to ensure that they serve their time
under the same conditions as other inmates, regardless
of disability. Until cells featuring such accommodation
are created, inmates who now serve in restricted
sections for no reason other than their disability
should be given opportunities for communal activity
where they are.
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