State
- After making cuts to the state's Medicaid program a priority this year, Governor Andrew Cuomo is starting a website to allow the public to track its spending.
- Amid the debate over Medicaid costs, the Watertown Daily Times reports on an impending shift in mental health services, from simply treating illness to focusing on recovery and wellness.
- In New York City, corrections and health officials agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit charging that an inmate died in jail because his severe alcohol withdrawal went untreated.
National
- Saying conditions in California’s overcrowded prisons violate the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the state must reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates. The decision, applauded by civil-liberties and criminal justice reform advocates, stirred discussion of its impact on other states.
- In related news, even as crime rates in the nation have fallen in recent decades, incarceration rates have not followed suit.
- Meanwhile, lawmakers in many states are pushing for online registries to track people with criminal records.
- While healthcare reform creates new opportunities for families to access health coverage, as many as 20 million children may have trouble gaining coverage because of complex family arrangements, according to researchers at the Urban Institute.
- With a major United Nations meeting on the global AIDS epidemic coming up in early June, public-health leaders are struggling to continue to fight to control the epidemic in light of severe global budget restraints.
- Most Americans oppose the idea of converting Medicaid to block grant financing to reduce the federal deficit, according to a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
- A study published recently in the Journal of the International AIDS Society examines the intersecting epidemics of HIV and incarceration.
- Wrapping up a five-day conference in Washington, DC, the Coalition for Juvenile Justice called for increases in federal funding for state and local juvenile justice programs, saying budget cuts have put youths at risk.
- The American Bar Association has raised its voice in favor of the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011, which would establish a panel to analyze the nation's criminal justice system.
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