Associate professor and director of education for the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
Legal director of the medical-legal partnership at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School and at the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
AMA J Ethics. 2024 Aug 1;26(8):E634-639. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2024.634.
Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) are well suited to address health-harming legal needs associated with the collateral consequences of mass incarceration in the United States, such as those that limit access to food, housing, employment, and family reunification postrelease. MLP innovations seek to expand the current model to address patients' criminal, as well as postrelease, civil legal needs by including community health workers and some patients as legal partners and creating coalitions to promote local and state policy change. Overall, this article explains how these MLP innovations can support rights of people returning to communities after incarceration and can be leveraged to mitigate criminal legal system involvement.
医疗法律伙伴关系（MLPs）非常适合解决与美国大规模监禁的附带后果相关的损害健康的法律需求，例如那些限制获得食物、住房、就业和家庭团聚的需求。MLP 的创新举措旨在通过纳入社区卫生工作者和一些患者作为法律伙伴，并创建联盟来推动地方和州政策的改变，来扩大当前的模式，以解决患者的刑事和刑满后民事法律需求。总的来说，本文解释了这些 MLP 创新如何能够支持被监禁后返回社区的人们的权利，并可以利用这些创新来减少刑事法律系统的参与。
