Reentry Project News Today

Despite ongoing reform efforts, the Massachusetts prison health care system continues to be confronted with significant challenges, deeply affecting the well-being of incarcerated individuals and complicating their reentry into society...

Under its still-pending application waiver, Pennsylvania would suspend Medicaid coverage during incarceration instead of terminating it. The post Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be released from prison appeared first on Pennsylvania Capital-Star.

A new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior to their release has drawn bipartisan interest and a slew of state applications. Federal policy has long prohibited Medicaid spending on people who are incarcerated in jails or prisons, except for hospitalization. As a result, […] The post Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be released from prison appeared first on Maine Morning Star.

A new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior to their release has drawn bipartisan interest and a slew of state applications. Federal policy has long prohibited Medicaid spending on people who are incarcerated in jails or prisons, except for hospitalization. As a result, […] The post Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be released from prison appeared first on Utah News Dispatch.

A new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior to their release has drawn a slew of state applications.

A new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior to their release has drawn bipartisan interest and a slew of state applications. Federal policy has long prohibited Medicaid spending on people who are incarcerated in jails or prisons, except for hospitalization. As a result, […] The post Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be released from prison appeared first on Rhode Island Current.

A new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior to their release has drawn bipartisan interest and a slew of state applications. Federal policy has long prohibited Medicaid spending on people who are incarcerated in jails or prisons, except for hospitalization. As a result, […] The post Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to be released from prison appeared first on Stateline.

Tomi Robb had a reentry focus at UT College of Law, aiming to provide help to those seeking to make changes after incarceration.

April is National Second Chance Month — an effort to highlight the importance of supporting formerly incarcerated community members. The CORI/Reentry Project of Community Legal Aid believes in more than second chances. The criminalization of poverty,...

The Criminal Justice Reform Act allows anyone who in a prison or jail who has a "terminal illness or permanent incapacitation" to be released.