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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.