Planned cuts to the budget for the New York Department of Corrections may shutter crucial reentry programs offered by community-run organizations.
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While Medicaid is generally prohibited from paying for the services people receive inside a prison or jail, the Biden administration opened the door for the federal program to cover care not long before a person is released, to help them better manage their health conditions during the transition. But across much of the South, health care reentry programs are minimal or nonexistent.
Atheena Drochak, a participant of the Custody to Community Transitional Reentry Program (CCTRP) in San Diego is missing after walking away from the facility on Sunday.
A nonprofit reentry program, known as the Legacy Institute for Financial Education (LIFE), located in Lufkin, East Texas is offering educational training, occupational skills training, and, possibly most importantly, short term loans in an effort to ease the struggles that thousands of formerly incarcerated people face upon their release from prison.
In an announcement Wednesday, the Department of Justice said the funds will be used to reduce recidivism and help returning citizens “build productive, successful lives.”
Rules that bar people with criminal convictions from housing or employment are slowly changing, but the hurdles to successful reentry facing individuals released from prison are still formidable. A guide published this month by the John Jay Institute for Justice and Opportunity offers some tips for getting through the maze.
The Collateral Consequences Resource Center’s analysis of reentry laws across the U.S. found significant improvements in record expungement, employment counseling and other incentives for successful reintegration. But the authors noted many states are still falling short.
Now that many incarcerated individuals have been released to slow the spread of the coronavirus, some are finding reentry “overwhelming” and “stressful”–even as they report feeling safer now that they’re home, according to a Florida study.
Reentry agencies find it difficult to handle the deluge of prison and jail inmates being let out as the coronavirus has forced them to close shelters and serve fewer people.
The COVID-19 pandemic has injected a new meaning into the phrase “public safety.” It requires not just the release of incarcerated individuals, but ensuring their release doesn’t further endanger their health and the health of the communities to which they return, writes a Washington, D.C,-based attorney who specializes in sentencing and reentry issues.