Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow.
Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado Department of Corrections expects them to land jobs with health benefits and cuts off care entirely, while halfway houses don’t do anything to augment the lack of a basic safety net for the jobless.
