Youth Incarceration

Public Health

Medicaid coverage is expanding into prisons in 2025, starting with children

Drew Hawkins

New federal policies extend Medicaid to incarcerated youth and open the door for adult inmates to get coverage before they’re released.
Law

Gulf South states among U.S. leaders for juvenile life without parole sentences, study shows

Kat Stromquist

A youth sentencing study shows Alabama and Mississippi are among just four states that top the nation in new juvenile life without parole sentences since 2012.