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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

Working Group on Health Reform and Criminal Justice

Topic
The potential impact of the ACA on the segment of the expanded population that intersects with the criminal justice system.This is a report of a working group that was co-funded by SAMHSA through its Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and its Strategic Initiative
on Trauma and Justice.

Presenter
Steven Rosenberg, President of COCHS

Working Group on Health Reform and Criminal Justice: Re-Tooling the Relationship

Topic
A Report of the Public Welfare Foundation funded small working group on health reform and criminal justice

Medicaid Expansion and The Local Criminal Justice System

Topic
The implications of Medicaid expansion for the jail-involved population, an article published in American Jails magazine

Author
COCHS CEO Michael DuBose

Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Illinois: Cuts lead to more mentally ill being jailed

Topic
Decision to cut spending on mental health in Illinois may increase the number of mentally ill incarcerated in Cook County Jail.

Author
Steve Metsch, Southtown Star

Psychiatric Patients With No Place to Go but Jail

Topic
Chicago plans to shut down 6 of its 12 mental health centers by the end of April, 2012 to save an estimated $2 million. Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook County fears that these closings will definitely have a negative impact on jail populations.

Author
Bridget O'Shea, New York Times

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