[These] guidelines promote the criminal justice partnerships that are necessary to develop successful approaches for identifying individuals in need of services, determining what services those individuals need, and addressing these needs during transition from incarceration to community-based treatment and supervision.

The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion offers a new opportunity for states to connect individuals in prisons and jails to coverage. However, Medicaid eligibility policies for incarcerated individuals vary in both expansion and non-expansion states.

The purpose of this issue brief is to highlight the importance of health insurance coverage for criminal justice involved individuals, particularly the importance of the expansion in Medicaid coverage made available through the Affordable Care Act.

Expansion states are taking advantage of the chance to cover outside hospitalizations that cost their states millions, as well as the opportunity to enroll parolees in Medicaid. Studies show health care keeps them from returning to prison.

The Pew Charitable Trusts.

This report examines state spending on inmate health care and the factors driving costs higher.

Resource guide for corrections system professials—to assist with the implementation of provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in order to maximize health care reform opportunities.

This Factsheet discusses Presumptive Eligibility: what it is, options to use, key facts, and FAQs.

Drawing on the research literature and interviews with national experts in health care and coverage, fatherhood programming, health coverage marketing, and health communications, this brief discusses new health coverage and care opportunities for justice-involved men and the importance of implementing community-based strategies for bringing justice-involved men into coverage and coordinated health care.

The purpose of this letter and its attachment is to provide guidance on facilitating access to covered Medicaid services for eligible individuals prior to and after a stay in a correctional institution.

AOT is a court order that requires certain persons with serious mental illness to stay in mandated and monitored treatment as a condition for living in the community. AOT reduces violence, arrest, hospitalization and incarceration of persons with serious mental illness in the 70% range and
thereby saves taxpayers 50% of the cost of care.