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State Prison Partnerships Can Improve Public Health and Safety
Anamosa State Prison, Anamosa, Iowa. Iowa is one of the states where corrections departments are partnering with health care agencies to make it possible for offenders’ conditions to be treated when they re-enter the community. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Nearly all people in prison eventually leave, many of them with chronic diseases or […]
New Data Show Slowdown in State and Local Government Health Spending
iStock Maria Schiff, a director at The Pew Charitable Trusts, researches and analyzes state health care spending. Matt McKillop, an officer at The Pew Charitable Trusts, researches and analyzes the fiscal health of states. For the first time in several years, state and local government health care spending grew relatively slowly in 2013—increasing by 3.2 […]