State officials are working to make sure people being released from prison will sign up for benefits during the 2014 Medicaid expansion.
When the enrollment date for individual health plans rolls around in October, former inmates will also be eligible for health plans offered in state health care exchanges, another part of the “Obamacare” Affordable Care Act implementation. But health advocates say that at best it’s more likely they’ll be signing up for Medicaid, because of their low incomes.
The state’s highest court rules that jurors in some murder cases received improper instruction, ending in the release of 13 convicts; the state is proposing to build a new detention center for girls; the O’Malley administration to address the recent spike in heroin overdose deaths in hopes of stopping the trend; Maryland’s insurance marketplace seeks to enroll 180,000 uninsured; state agencies to make recommendation on fracking; state to crack down on E-ZPass runners; with Delmar tapped to head municipal league, Wicomico’s clout grows – at least for six months; and Doc Cheatham to run for 40th District delegate.
Forty years ago, 204,211 people were held by U.S. prison authorities; in 2011, there were 1.6 million, a 780% increase while the U.S. population as a whole had grown by about 50%. A new book produced by the Justice Policy Institute in Washington, “Incarceration Generation” documents how, why and to whom that happened. It gathers commentary from 19 researchers, advocates and people who have personally experienced the system, including an ex-cop and an ex-con who spoke in Baltimore Wednesday night.
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