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Background <p>When courts oversee negotiated settlement agreements about health policy and practice in notoriously insular and opaque spaces, like prisons how do they monitor implementation? In this thematic analysis of interviews with court-appointed monitors who oversee the implementation of prison healthcare consent decrees, this study examines how implementation unfolds within correctional organizations. Specifically, the study addresses (1) what monitors perceive as the key organizational and contextual barriers and facilitators to healthcare consent decree implementation, and (2) how these factors shape the implementation of health service reforms in prison settings.</p> Methods <p>Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with nine court-appointed monitors across 15 interviews and analyzed thematically using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR).</p> Results <p>Findings suggest that successful implementation depends on key change facilitators, including respectful interpersonal relationships and open communication, support from organizational leadership, and early planning that also sought to maintain reforms after the consent decree ended. Barriers include fiscal and geographic constraints, which limit services and medical staff hiring.</p> Conclusions <p>By situating consent decree implementation within a health policy implementation framework, this study highlights how legally facilitated reforms interact with organizational capacity, professional norms, and resource constraints to shape healthcare delivery in carceral settings. These findings underscore that litigation can catalyze reform, but long-term improvements in correctional healthcare require sustained institutional commitment and resources beyond the life of the decree.</p>

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Organizational change in adversarial contexts: barriers and facilitators to healthcare consent decree implementation

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    2026年7月4日

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  • Bryant J. Jackson-Green

摘要

Background

When courts oversee negotiated settlement agreements about health policy and practice in notoriously insular and opaque spaces, like prisons how do they monitor implementation? In this thematic analysis of interviews with court-appointed monitors who oversee the implementation of prison healthcare consent decrees, this study examines how implementation unfolds within correctional organizations. Specifically, the study addresses (1) what monitors perceive as the key organizational and contextual barriers and facilitators to healthcare consent decree implementation, and (2) how these factors shape the implementation of health service reforms in prison settings.

Methods

Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with nine court-appointed monitors across 15 interviews and analyzed thematically using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR).

Results

Findings suggest that successful implementation depends on key change facilitators, including respectful interpersonal relationships and open communication, support from organizational leadership, and early planning that also sought to maintain reforms after the consent decree ended. Barriers include fiscal and geographic constraints, which limit services and medical staff hiring.

Conclusions

By situating consent decree implementation within a health policy implementation framework, this study highlights how legally facilitated reforms interact with organizational capacity, professional norms, and resource constraints to shape healthcare delivery in carceral settings. These findings underscore that litigation can catalyze reform, but long-term improvements in correctional healthcare require sustained institutional commitment and resources beyond the life of the decree.