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Having a medical home – a trusted, reliable source of continuing health care – can ease the process for people leaving jail so that they’re less likely to return.

—Dick Bohrer
COCHS Advisory Committee Member

Departments of corrections and health providers from the community should join together in the common project of delivering high quality health care that protects prisoners and the public.

—Confronting Confinement:
A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons

By collaborating with community health centers, jails can be part of the solution to improving both public safety and public health.

—Keith Barton, M.D.
COCHS' Medical Director

COCHS

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

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What's New

Download Medicaid Expansion and The Local Criminal Justice System, COCHS CEO Michael DuBose explains the implications of Medicaid expansion for the jail-involved population, in this article published in American Jails magazine.
Download Working Group on Health Reform and Criminal Justice a report of the SAMHSA supported working group presented by Steven Rosenberg, President of COCHS.
Download Working Group on Health Reform and Criminal Justice: Re-Tooling the Relationship a Report of the Public Welfare Foundation funded small working group on health reform and criminal justice.

RESOURCES

NACo and COCHS are convening small working groups on the implication of the PPACA's defining qualified person to include those individuals pending disposition. Sign up for more information regarding this partnership.
COCHS M.A.P. Tool 2.0 ^@ is COCHS' web application that provides GIS technology for reentry planning.

by Dr. Radut.