Connecting Recently Incarcerated People to Medicaid
Lacking access to health care is among the challenges faced by people released from correctional facilities. Learn about the wide variety of Medicaid policy levers and financing strategies states use to connect released prisoners to Medicaid benefits and leverage the federal match for these programs.
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State Crime Data and Strategies to Lower Crime
The Council of State Governments Justice Center released a new set of tools to help states understand and address crime. The first is a compilation of 50-state crime data, including violent crime, arrests and prison populations. The second explores ways states can lower crime.
Check out these NCSL resources on some of the strategies highlighted by CSGJC:
Juvenile Justice 2022 Year-End Brief
See NCSL’s new 2022 Juvenile Justice legislation summary. Juvenile justice legislation in 2022 focused on steering youth away from formal court processing, protecting due process rights, safeguarding against deceptive interrogation techniques, limiting the use of solitary confinement and restraints, and more.
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In the News
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The Policing Project at NYU School of Law recently launched Reimagining Public Safety, an initiative to end the overuse of police as a one-size-fits-all response to community needs. The initiative aims to address the reality that people call 911 not because they always need the police, but because they need urgent help and there’s often no one else to call. Learn more about the initiative on their newly launched webpage and get connected to resources to help redesign public safety systems.
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In Wisconsin the legislature has voted to send a constitutional amendment to voters that would require judges to consider risk to public safety, including a person’s criminal history, when setting bail. Under current law, financial conditions of release can only be used to assure a defendant’s appearance in court.
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The New Mexico Chief Justice highlighted advances in public safety resulting from changes to the state’s pretrial detention system that started in 2017. Several bills this session propose to address the issue.
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The Illinois Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in March to determine the constitutionality of provisions of the SAFE-T Act that eliminated financial conditions of release in the state.
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