This article addresses the need for training, nurturing, and mentoring of staff as they work with incarcerated persons and their families when life-threatening illnesses and death enter their lives, and the unique needs of inmates and staff when confronted with dying, death, and bereavement. The article is based on the training provided to staff in hospice, comfort care, and grief as an outgrowth of the Philadelphia Prison System’s hospice and comfort care programs and the work of the auxiliary chaplain specializing in grief and bereavement. It encourages other prisons and jails to set up programs and training for all disciplines in the areas of life-threatening illnesses, grief, and bereavement.
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