Predictive Analytics and the Future of Jail Health Care
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Congratulations to Kings County Probation!
CA Attorney General Recognizes Kings County Probation Department for Juvenile Reentry Efforts
California Attorney General Kamala Harris (pictured left) recently awarded the Kings County (CA) Probation Department with a Recidivism Reduction Certificate of Commendation for its work with youth. The department, which is in the process of developing a comprehensive reentry strategic plan aimed at reducing recidivism for youth committed to the county juvenile detention center, received a Second Chance Act Juvenile Reentry Systems Reform planning grant through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2014.
Read more about the awards recognizing law enforcement.
Learn more about the Second Chance Act grant program.
New Papers Highlight ACA’s Impacts on Correctional Health Care System
Letter from the president of COCHS
Dear Colleague,
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) recognized the potentially huge implications of parity and Medicaid expansion for the criminal justice system. We have published several papers on these issues, all of which are available on our website at: www.cochs.org.
But the ACA is having other, less widely recognized impacts as well, most notably by driving the creation of consumer-driven health care systems within correctional settings, as well as the establishment of payment arrangements based on value instead of volume.
Two new papers from COCHS address these developments in depth:
- Consumer Rights Come to Jail: How the Affordable Care Changes the Rights of Individuals Pending Disposition, by COCHS General Counsel Daniel J. Mistak, describes how the ACA endows individuals pending disposition with new consumer rights — and the implications of those rights.
- Development of a Performance-Based RFP for Correctional Health Care Services in Vermont, by COCHS Research Associate Ben Watts, is a case study of how a state correctional health care system created a new performance-based contractual model in alignment with state and federal health reforms.
I think you will find both these reports very informative. I encourage you to read them and share them with your colleagues.
Best wishes,
Steven Rosenberg
President, COCHS
Reducing Recidivism: States Deliver Results
In Reducing Recidivism: States Deliver Results, the National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC) highlights eight states that have achieved reductions in statewide recidivism in recent years: Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. The report focuses on statewide recidivism data for adults released in 2007 and 2010 with a three-year follow-up period, offering a current snapshot of criminal justice outcomes in these states. The report also features examples of recidivism-reduction strategies and programs that the states have undertaken in this timeframe, as well as additional data on the state’s criminal justice populations through 2013.