Friday, July 19 2024:

• A Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Impact of Ending Slavery and Involuntary Servitude as Criminal Punishment and Paying Incarcerated Workers Fair Wages, Edgeworth Economics and Worth Rises. January, 2024. "Once the adjustments to paying incarcerated workers are achieved the total fiscal benefits to incarcerated workers, their families and children, crime victims, and society at large is between $26.8 billion and $34.7 billion per year."
• Workers Doing Time Must Be Protected by Job Safety Laws National Employment Law Project. April, 2024. "Excessive carceral costs and fees coupled with strong incentives for early release push incarcerated workers into accepting dangerous assignments."
• The First Step Act's Prison Reforms Brennan Center for Justice. September, 2022. "The Act excludes those convicted of many crimes [from receiving Earned Time Credits]. These exclusions prevent nearly half of the federal prison population from benefiting from credits...[and] appear to serve no policy purpose."
• Eight Key Considerations for Successful Implementation of New Medicaid Reentry Policies Health and Reentry Project. June, 2024. "Successful implementation of these policies requires that correctional facilities have data and IT systems that can share eligibility, enrollment, and pertinent patient clinical information across community and correctional systems."
• Medicaid's New Role in Advancing Reentry: Key Policy Changes, Health and Reentry Project. March, 2024. "The minimum services states must provide to be approved for a waiver are: case management, medication assisted treatment (MAT), and a 30-day supply of medications upon release. States can go above and beyond these three services..."
• Recommendations for Medicaid Coverage of Opioid Use Disorder Services in Jails and Prisons Health and Reentry Project and Viaduct Consulting, LLC. January, 2024. (This slide deck covers findings from three reports encouraging state and local governments to expand access to quality, evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder in prisons and jails by leveraging Medicaid coverage.)
• Breaking Ground: How California is Using Medicaid to Improve the Health of People Leaving Incarceration, Health and Reentry Project. May, 2023. "Incarcerated adults who are enrolled in Medi-Cal and meet specific criteria and all Medi-Cal/CHIP-enrolled youth in youth correctional settings will qualify for Medi-Cal pre-release services."
• Sex Offense Civil Commitment Minnesota's Failed Investment and the $100 Million Opportunity to Stop Sexual Violence, Mitchell Hamline School of Law. April, 2024. "As of September 1, 2023, only 21 of the 946 people committed to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program have been fully discharged from the program (~2%), while at least 94 have died during their commitment (~10%)."