The American Correctional Health Services Association (ACHSA) and the American Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (AACFP) developed codes of ethics. These codes provide health care providers a viable approach to ethical practice in corrections. The codes recognize the importance of working with all correctional staff members in providing a safe environment, yet value the unique professional role of health care professionals in providing health care. The major principles of welfare of the client, informed consent, competence, dual relationships, confidentiality, and social responsibility are reviewed and case examples illustrate the ethnical decisionmaking process. Facing many ethical dilemmas, the ACHSA and AACFP Codes of Ethics are clinician derived and offers the correctional clinician a practical, well-balanced approach to inmate health care. References