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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.

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.