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A Correctional Nurse's Guide to Ethics, Survival, and Staying Human in Prison Healthcare Providing healthcare in prison is unlike nursing anywhere else. Behind locked doors and constant surveillance, clinical judgment intersects with custody, ethics are tested daily, and emotional strain can quietly accumulate. In this environment, nurses must balance compassion with boundaries, professionalism with safety, and care with the realities of a controlled system. In Behind the Walls, Abiodun Alade offers an honest and thoughtful look at correctional healthcare from the inside. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a nurse in a penitentiary-after first serving as a correctional officer-Alade provides rare insight into the ethical challenges, emotional demands, and professional realities of working in one of healthcare's most complex environments. Inside this book, you will discover: - The unspoken realities of providing healthcare behind prison walls - How nurses navigate the tension between care and custody - The importance of professional boundaries and consistency - The emotional toll correctional work can take on healthcare professionals - Lessons about resilience, humanity, and ethical practice Behind the Walls is not a sensational account of prison life and it is not a policy manual. It is a thoughtful, experience-based guide for healthcare professionals seeking clarity about correctional nursing and the human realities of practicing medicine inside the justice system. Whether you are a nurse considering work in a correctional facility, already working behind the walls, or simply curious about this hidden world of healthcare, this book offers insight that few outsiders ever see. Correctional healthcare is rarely visible to the public. This book gives it a voice.

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