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High-Priority Needs Identified by the Panel on Reducing Mortality in Corrections

• Facilities should provide medical and mental health services at a community-level standard of care.
• Correctional facilities need to better manage organizational and cultural conflicts between security and care objectives.
• There is a need for greater capacity for medical, mental health, and substance abuse care, both within facilities during incarceration and in the community after release.
• The availability of medication-assisted therapies and drug overdose countermeasures should be expanded.
• There is a need for more-uniform adoption of best practices in suicide risk assessment and prevention.
• More and better data are required in order to develop targeted interventions to reduce mortality.
• Compliance with national standards for medical screening and care provision should be better incentivized and supported.
• There is a need for uniformity in how internal death reviews are conducted, including multidisciplinary participation.
• There is a need for more-effective discharge planning and "warm hand-offs" to community-based health providers.
• Greater electronic information sharing between and among correctional institutions and community-based health providers can improve care and reduce inmate mortality.