Offender Healthcare

We’ve got form

Don’t worry! We haven’t got any criminal convictions. But yes, we do have a providen track record in caring for detainees - commercially in high-income countries and humanitarianly in more financially-challenged states. In fact, we’re now into our second decade of continual provision of humanitarian offender healthcare in the Philippines.

Professionals

Seasoned prison doctors often get asked how we stumbled into our line of work, and why on earth we stick with it…

  • Beyond the Bars
    Co-founder and chief medical officer Rachael reflects on a her journey into offender healthcare and our organisation’s early years.

patients

But which patients get treated by offender healthcare services…?

  • civil detainees - those imprisoned for debt in certain countries

  • convicted prisoners - those found guilty and serving prison sentences

  • forensic psychiatric detainees - those implicated in crimes but detained in mental health facilities due to concerns about their mental state

  • immigration detainees - detained asylum seekers and those awaiting deportation for visa infraction or other crimes

  • locked psychiatric patients - those not implicated in crime but unable to leave their mental health ward due to concern that their mental illness could risk their safety or the safety of others

  • police detainees - those kept in police cells for days, weeks, months, even years

  • remand prisoners - those detained in prison whilst awaiting trial

  • young offenders - children detained whilst awaiting trial or serving sentences

We extend our humanitarian services to ex-detainees (whether released without charge, bailed, paroled, or released after serving their full sentence) and dependents (such as young children and elderly parents).

‘I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me,
I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
Matthew 25:36