Jail Healthcare Staffing in the US Southeast: a Cross-Sectional Survey

Jails annually incarcerate millions of people with health problems, yet jail healthcare services have not been well described. To describe jail healthcare staffing. Phone-administered survey conducted October 2020 to May 2021. County jails in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Jail personnel “most knowledgeable” about jail healthcare. Weekly on-site healthcare coverage rate (hours per 100 incarcerated person-weeks [IPWs]) by personnel type; telemedicine rates and detention officers’ healthcare duties. Survey response rate was 73