Jail Medicine

We will discuss all aspects of medicine practiced in jails, prisons and juvenile facilities. Jeffrey E.

Keller is a Board Certified Emergency Physician with 25 years of practice experience before moving full time into the practice of Correctional Medicine. He is the Medical Director of the Ada County Jail in Boise, Idaho, the Bonneville county Jail in idaho Falls, Idaho as well as several other jails and juvenile facilities.

01/15/2021

Prisoners, given the challenges to social distancing in institutions, are especially at risk of contracting the coronavirus.

12/18/2020

We broke our addiction to locking people up. But it didn’t last.

12/13/2020

A prison health expert explains why incarcerated people should be near the front of the line for the coronavirus vaccine.

12/05/2020

There are better ways to stop unlawful behavior.

12/02/2020

Federal officials have suggested that corrections staff receive high priority for a coronavirus vaccine, but not the millions of vulnerable inmates held in U.S. facilities.

11/22/2020

It’s both a moral failure and a public health one.

11/17/2020

How Am I Doing? Need to Know How I’ve Been… Posted on November 10, 2020 by SharenAccording to the fitness tracker I wear on my wrist, I slept for 7 hours and 13 minutes last night. I was restless eight times and woke up twice. What does that tell me? No idea. The Centers for Disease Cont...

11/06/2020

EastIdahoNews.com and Ashley HomeStore are teaming up every week to bring you some good news during Feel Good Friday! We want to thank people in our community with random acts of kindness and leave you feeling good. A few weeks ago we received the following email: Hello. (I work) with the Bonneville...

10/29/2020

Documenting Test Results the Ed and Midge Way Posted on October 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Keller MDI have a ten-year-old Yorkie named Ed. Ed is experienced and knows the daily routine of our house. Last year, we got a Yorkie puppy named Midge. She initially knew nothing. It has been entertaining to wat...

10/22/2020

Healio Rheumatology | The environment is uninviting and uncaring. It’s loud, it’s cold and it’s dangerous. And it’s even worse for the inmates. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were nearly 2.2 million adults locked in prisons and jails across the United St...

10/11/2020

What is the most common mistake made when treating withdrawal in a correctional facility? Consider these two patients: A jail patient booked yesterday is referred to medical because of a history of…

09/08/2020

I learned about Bounce-Backs back in my Emergency Medicine days. A bounce-back is a patient who you saw in the ER and discharged but then returned within 48 hours with the same complaint.&nbs…

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