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3 results foundAuthor: Cockburn, Chloe Title: Healthcare Not Handcuffs: Putting the Affordable Care Act to Work for Criminal Justice and Drug Law Reform Summary: For the last 40 years, we have largely relegated health problems like substance abuse and mental health disorders to the criminal justice system. As a result, millions of people are burdened by felony convictions due to drug use, and those who cannot afford to pay for treatment have had to be locked in cells in order to get access to necessary care. Now, we have a chance to do something new. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) represents a remarkable opportunity for criminal justice and drug policy reform advocates to advance efforts to enact policy changes that promote safe and healthy communities, without excessively relying on criminal justice solutions that have become so prevalent under the War on Drugs, and which fall so disproportionately on low-income communities and communities of color. Even with its challenges, the ACA sets the stage for a new health-oriented policy framework to address problems such as substance use and mental health disorders by more appropriately and effectively casting substance use and mental health disorders as matters of public health and not of criminal justice. Our task is to make the most of it. To assist advocates in navigating this new terrain, Healthcare Not Handcuffs: Putting the Affordable Care Act to Work for Criminal Justice and Drug Law Reform outlines some of the major provisions of the ACA immediately relevant to criminal justice and drug policy reform and explores specific applications of those provisions, including program and policy examples and suggested action steps. Details: New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 27, 2014 at: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/healthcare_not_handcuffs_12172013.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/healthcare_not_handcuffs_12172013.pdf Shelf Number: 131803 Keywords: Affordable Care ActDrug Abuse Treatment Drug Policy Health Care Mental Health Services Prisoners |
Author: Californians for Safety and Justice Title: Enrollment Efforts for California's Justice-Involved Populations Summary: Potential to Expand Health Coverage to Justice-Involved Populations California's implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including its expansion of Medi-Cal (the state's Medicaid program) for low-income childless adults, created an unprecedented opportunity for previously uninsured individuals to receive health coverage and access to health services. Among the newly eligible are many individuals with histories of criminal justice system involvement, including people in county jails or under the supervision of county probation departments. Criminal justice populations have high levels of physical and behavioral health care needs, and providing them with health coverage and services could improve individual health, public health, and public safety outcomes, as well as reduce health and criminal justice system costs. California Counties Seize This Opportunity In 2014, Californians for Safety and Justice conducted a statewide survey of California counties to learn about local efforts to provide jail and probation populations with health coverage application assistance. At the time of this initial survey, it was clear that providing health coverage to criminal justice populations was a priority for the majority of counties, most of which were in the early stages of planning or implementing their enrollment initiatives. Out of the 44 counties that responded to the 2014 survey, all 44 reported that they were actively providing or planning to provide application assistance to jail inmates, and 43 reported that they were actively providing or planning to provide application assistance to adult probationers. The results of this initial survey are discussed in more detail in "Health Coverage Enrollment of California's Local Criminal Justice Populations," available at .safeandjust.org. Details: Oakland, CA: Californians for Safety and Justice, 2016. 16p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 1, 2016 at: http://libcloud.s3.amazonaws.com/211/01/2/685/1/Cnty_CriminalJustice_EnrollmentBrief-FINAL-online_copy.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: http://libcloud.s3.amazonaws.com/211/01/2/685/1/Cnty_CriminalJustice_EnrollmentBrief-FINAL-online_copy.pdf Shelf Number: 139259 Keywords: Affordable Care ActHealth CareMedical Care |
Author: Vogler, Jacob Title: Access to Health Care and Criminal Behavior: Short-Run Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansions Summary: I investigate the causal relationship between access to health care and criminal behavior following state decisions to expand Medicaid coverage after the Affordable Care Act. Many of the newly eligible individuals for Medicaid-provided health insurance are adults at high risk for crime. I leverage variation in insurance eligibility generated by state decisions to expand Medicaid and differential pre-treatment uninsured rates at the county-level. My findings indicate that the Medicaid expansions have resulted in significant decreases in annual crime by 3.2 percent. This estimate is driven by significant decreases in both reported violent and property crime. A within-state heterogeneity analysis suggests that crime impacts are more pronounced in counties with higher pre-reform uninsured levels. The estimated decrease in reported crime amounts to an annual cost savings of $13.6 billion Details: Unpublished paper, 2017. 53p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 20, 2017 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3042267 Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3042267 Shelf Number: 148279 Keywords: Affordable Care ActHealth CareHealth InsuranceMedicaid |