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People in Custody, Families & Advocates
For people in jail or prison, their families, and the advocates who help them. This page is text-first and prints with its web addresses and dates. It asks nothing about who you are, loads no analytics or tracking script, and saves nothing on your device. Like any web page, a visit can still appear in a browser’s history and in ordinary server and network logs.
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Start with a task
Follow a health concern through custody
Keep medication going
Ask for care, and keep a record of the request
Transfers, hospital returns and release
Disability, pregnancy and mental-health needs
Five places to start
Chosen for this perspective. Titles, dates and review notes are the pages’ own.
- Follow a Health Concern Through Intake, Custody, Transfer, and Release
Following one health concern from intake to release.
- The Constitutional Floor for Correctional Health Care
The legal minimum for health care in custody, explained.
- Medication Continuity in Custody
Why medication breaks in custody, and where the record sits.
- CFMG–Wellpath Claims & Accountability Roadmaps
Legal-information roadmaps for correctional health care in California.
- Custody and Medical Records: Build a Record Map Before Drawing Conclusions
Mapping the custody and medical records before drawing conclusions.
Where to verify
Source records, methods, and limiting or contrary material.
Recent changes in this area
First publications and substantive revisions in the last 45 days, newest first, by each page’s own content date — never the date this page was rebuilt.
- What five public orders in Overfield decide about CFMG’s money — and what they leave open
- A recovered labor record, a rule in force, and a case the index missed
- The missing updates and the corrected record
- Wellpath, CFMG and the national professional-corporation network
- Corrections
- Corrections and Version History for the CFMG–Wellpath Claims & Accountability Roadmaps: How to Report an Error, How Corrections Are Classified and Logged, What Version Strings Mean, and the Current Version of Every Page
Scope of this page
- Most legal material here concerns California jails and prisons and federal law. Whether a person is a pretrial detainee or a convicted prisoner changes the legal standard. The roadmap on that question explains the difference; this page does not decide it for anyone.
- General information, not individual medical, legal or financial advice. See the medical and legal disclaimer.
- How sources, claims, dates and corrections are handled: Methodology and Editorial standards.
- Expert medical review and clinical consulting are separate professional services with their own qualifications and independence and conflict rules. Reading this site is not an engagement.
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