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| Jail inmates will soon be signing up for healthcare coverage |
| By wqow.com |
| Published: 03/11/2014 |
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MADISON (WKOW) -- A new group is being targeted for health insurance coverage: jail inmates. Dane county officials say there are two big reasons for that. It's a way for their jails to save money on health care costs and it should also reduce the number of inmates who re-offend. Hundreds of the inmates in Dane County have been to jail here before. "At least one third of that population ends up recycling back through and a lot of the issues that are identified there have to do with substance abuse, mental illness," said Todd Campbell, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Manager for the Dane County Department of Human Services. Read More. |
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