Are you signing your inmates up for ACA?
inmates are getting signed up for ACA < link!
personally, I think this is really good news for everyone worried about their tax dollars and how they get spent.
De-Incarceration of California youth
Radical de-incarceration article
By Mike Males
Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice
California has undertaken two gigantic experiments in de-incarceration, one of youths and the other adults. They were largely forced on the state by court mandates and budget constraints—but also by some key policy changes.
The first experiment is so radical that even the most progressive reformers could never have envisioned it. California has all but abolished state imprisonment and has sharply reduced local incarceration of youths to the lowest levels ever recorded—by far.
Child Trends Data Bank article 
Ethical Dilemmas In Prison And Jail Health Care
Vol. 33|No. 3
- From the Founding Editor
- Entry Point: Aging With HIV
- ACA: More HIV Testing
- Non-Expansion States And HIV
- Lives Saved By Early Treatment
- Cost Savings And Early Treatment
- Targeting Resources For Prevention
- Survey: HIV Testing In Jails
- ACA Can Help The Jail-Involved
- The ACA And Healthier Jail Populations
- Overcoming Barriers To Post-Jail Care
- Using HIT To Improve Jail Health Delivery
- Narrative Matters: Life Beyond Jail Walls
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Editor’s note: This post is published in conjunction with the March issue of Health Affairs, which features a cluster of articles on jails and health.
Prison and jail health care, despite occasional pockets of inspiration, provided by programs affiliated with academic institutions, is an arena of endless ethical conflict in which health care providers must negotiate relentlessly with prison officials to provide necessary and decent care. The “right to health care” articulated by the Supreme Court pre-ordained these ongoing tensions. The court reasoned that to place persons in prison or jail, where they could not secure their own care, and then to fail to provide that care, could result in precisely the pain and suffering prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/03/10/ethical-dilemmas-in-prison-and-jail-health-care/
Dying in Prison
In 2006, Edgar Barens went to prison every day for six months. The Iowa State Penitentiary had granted the Chicago-based film-maker unprecedented access to shoot a documentary about the prison’s fledgling hospice program.
There, he met and filmed the eponymous lead of his film, Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall, an 82-year-old World War II veteran and convicted murderer, suffering from heart disease and pneumonia. The 40-minute-long Academy Award-nominated documentary will air on HBO on March 31.
