Inmate Medical Care for Jails Under 80 Beds
A fully Telehealth solution, purpose-built for small jails. Aspen brings corrections-specialized medical expertise to your facility—handling triage, meds, and admin so your team isn't making risky healthcare decisions alone. Fewer transports, lower liability, and support you can trust.
”It feels like a big weight has been lifted.”
Why Small Jails Get Left Behind
If you run a jail with fewer than 80 beds, you already know this: most healthcare vendors won’t even return your call—let alone solve your problems.
Cost Prohibitive
On-site care is often too expensive and you usually don’t need a full time nurse.
Overlooked by Big Vendors
Large vendors prioritize the big facilities. Smaller jails just aren’t their priority.
Non-Corrections Clinicians
Community providers are frequently manipulated by inmates and prescribe unnecessary medications and treatments, generating burden for officers and extra costs.
Patchwork Systems
If you don’t have medical, your staff ends up triaging inmates and coordinating medical care on their own.
You're not just short on medical care. You're stuck with a system that was never built for you.
Without the right medical team, the facility carries the burden.
Overloaded Officers
Officers get pulled off their core duties to manage transports, sit at ERs, and track down prescriptions.
Increased Risk
Your people are making triage decisions without medical training — and if something goes wrong, the liability is yours.
Con Games
Inmates manipulate weaknesses in the system — gaming their way into transport or meds they don't need.
Too Many Meds, Too Much Risk
Community doctors often prescribe medications and treatments that aren't necessary in a jail setting. That leads to more pills, more cheeking, more risk, and more time spent on med pass.
Administrative Burden
Chasing down prescriptions, providers, and paperwork shouldn't fall on your jail staff. But it does.
Aspen
The complete inmate medical care system built for small jails.
Fully Telehealth, by Design
We don't try to retrofit a "big-jail" model into a small facility. Medical care is delivered securely, reliably, and entirely remotely.
24/7 Coverage
No gaps. No burnout. No single point of failure. Aspen gives you a full team. Always available.
Corrections-Specialized Care
Our team, protocols, and care decisions are built for the jail environment. We know how to spot manipulation, prescribe appropriate medications, and make decisions that actually work in custody settings.
What You Get with Aspen
Daily Nursing Sessions
Every day, our nurses triage new complaints and follow up on existing issues.
Weekly Provider Sessions
Our medical providers conduct weekly medical visits with inmates.
Weekly Behavioral Health Sessions
Regular mental health evaluations and ongoing support for at-risk inmates.
24/7 On-Call Access
When something happens outside of business hours, Aspen is available — immediately.
Suicide Evaluation and Clearing
Aspen handles suicide risk evaluations and clearance determinations, making these decisions for your team.
Training for Officers & Jail Staff
We train your team to identify when they should call us, understand care workflows, and avoid unnecessary escalations.
Administrative Ownership
We take over all medical coordination — prescriptions, medical records, referrals, and provider follow-up. It's off your plate.
Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
All care is documented and tracked in a modern, secure EMR that connects directly with your JMS.
Corrections-Specialized Medical Staff
We only hire nurses and providers with jail experience — no learning curve, no rookie mistakes.
Shift in Liability to Aspen
When we make the medical call, the liability is on us — not your team or your facility.
What Changes. And When.
Aspen doesn’t take months to ramp up. Relief starts on day one.
A 24 hour medical partner
Instead of sending inmates out or guessing what to do, your staff can call Aspen. You've got backup and a real medical team taking responsibility.
Fewer transports, fewer disruptions
We start triaging complaints daily and seeing patients via telehealth. Many issues that used to trigger a trip to the hospital now get handled inside the jail.
Fewer meds. Shorter med pass.
We review prescriptions and eliminate inappropriate or unnecessary meds. You'll likely see a 20%-50% drop in total meds and med pass time.
Less manipulation.
With consistent policies, fair boundaries, and caring but firm providers, the incentive to game the system drops dramatically. False complaints drop, and the tone in the facility starts to shift.
More officers available for core duties
Fewer transports, less paperwork, and fewer medical distractions. Your staff gets back to doing what they were hired to do, keeping the jail and the community safe.
The lawsuit that never came
Every decision Aspen makes? Our responsibility. You avoid the catastrophic liability event that could've cost your facility greatly.
Proven Results
We reduced one facility’s meds from 50 to 20.
Before & After
Results from our case study with a county jail averaging 18 ADP (Average Daily Population).
Medical Transports
Before
10
After
2
Medications Administered
Before
58
After
27
Officer Stress Level
Before
10/10
After
4/10
Ready to Lift the Weight?
Schedule a call to learn how Aspen can bring reliable, expert medical care to your jail.