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Mississippi Attempts to Offload Prisoner Healthcare Costs Onto Medicaid

by Anthony W. Accurso

On April 21, 2022, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed H.B. 936, a new law creating “special care facilities” to house and provide healthcare for about 600 “medically frail” state prisoners eligible for parole whom the state Department of Corrections (DOC) refuses to release because they ...

 

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