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Sample Clinical Guideline: Medical Approval of Personal Footwear
By Jeffrey E. Keller MD
Published: 09/10/2018

Sneaker This clinical guideline is intended to be used as a template to help clinicians and administrators create their own policy on personal footwear. This sample guideline must be modified to make it applicable to each unique correctional facility. This guideline is not intended to apply to all patients. Practitioners should use their clinical judgement for individual patients.

Introduction. Inmates housed in county jails are provided footwear by security personnel. Occasionally, inmates will state that they have a medical condition that requires them to wear their own personal shoes. If an inmate asks medical personnel to authorize him to wear his own personal shoes, medical providers should re-frame the question as “does this patient have a legitimate medical need to wear his own personal shoes?” Inmates may desire to wear their own shoes for many non-medical reasons, such as convenience, as a sign of increased status among other inmates and as a way to smuggle contraband. This guideline addresses the question of when inmates have a medical need to wear their own personal shoes.

Definitions.

“Personal footwear” refers to shoes worn to the jail at the time of booking and to shoes purchased and provided by the patient’s family.

“Commissary shoes and inserts” refers to shoes or inserts that can be purchased from the jail commissary.

“Orthotics” refers to any shoe, insert or brace that is 1. prescribed by a medical practitioner and 2. fitted to a particular patient. Examples include prosthetic legs, casts, CAM walkers and shoes that have been created or especially altered by a prosthetician. Shoes, inserts and braces purchased from a retail store without a physician’s prescription will not be considered orthotics under this guideline.

Evaluation of prescribed orthotics. Orthotic prescriptions should be verified, if possible. Prescribed orthotics should be evaluated by a medical practitioner for medical appropriateness. Prescribed orthotics should also be examined by security personnel to make sure that they will not compromise the safety and security of the facility (for example, by having secreted contraband or metal that could be used to make a weapon).

Patients presenting with prescribed orthotics intended for temporary use, such as casts, splints and Cam Walkers, should be referred to the jail medical provider to determine how long such orthotics will need to be worn while in jail.

Patients without prescribed orthotics, as defined above, will be assumed to have no medical need to wear their own personal footwear. Chronic pain syndromes generally do not constitute a medical need for personal footwear. Jails are strongly encouraged to have sneakers and arch supports available for inmates to purchase from the commissary.

Special cases. Some patients, such as older patients who may be unsteady when walking or those with diabetic foot disease, may require different shoes than the standard jail footwear. Generally, these shoes should be prescribed by the jail medical practitioner and provided by the jail rather than allowing outside footwear into the facility.

Security personnel may consider allowing personal footwear for the patient for which no appropriate shoe size is available (for example, a patient who wears size 18 shoes).

Administration. Nursing personnel may address routine inmate requests for personal footwear. Nurses should refer any complicated or questionable cases to the jail provider’s clinic. These encounters must be appropriately documented in the patient’s medical record.

Patients who have had their request to wear personal shoes denied may ask for reconsideration. Such patients should be referred to the medical clinic for examination and evaluation. Reconsideration should be based on appropriate documentation of a medical need for personal footwear.

This documentation should include a prescription or a letter from a licensed medical provider that explains the diagnosis that requires the patient to wear special footwear and an appropriate prescription listing the footwear being prescribed, how the footwear should be used and how long the patient should use this footwear.

The jail medical director shall be the final judge of whether any footwear is truly medically necessary.

Documentation. Medical personnel do not assign footwear. The correctional deputies do this task. Instead, medical personnel are being asked if a patient has a medical need to wear their own footwear. Therefore, medical personnel should document the answer to this question only.

Wrong: “Request for own shoes is not approved.” Correct: “This patient does not have a medical need for his own shoes.”

If a patient does have a legitimate medical need for an orthotic, consideration should also be paid to the patient’s other housing needs. For example, patients who have a medical need for orthotic footwear may need to be assigned to the bottom tier and/or bottom bunk. Inmate workers with orthotics may need work restrictions.

I view these sample guidelines as a group effort! If you have a suggestion, critique or simply a better way to phrase some concept, say so in comments.

As always, what I have written here is my own personal opinion, based on my own training , research and experience. I could be wrong!

Corrections.com author, Jeffrey E. Keller is a Board Certified Emergency Physician with 25 years of practice experience before moving full time into the practice of Correctional Medicine. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Centurion. He is also the author of the "Jail Medicine" blog

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