医疗法律伙伴关系(MLP)非常适合解决与美国大规模监禁的附带后果相关的危害健康的法律需求。比如那些限制获取食物的人,住房,employment,和家庭团聚后。MLP创新寻求扩大目前的模式,以解决患者的犯罪问题,以及后期,包括社区卫生工作者和一些患者作为法律伙伴,并建立联盟以促进地方和国家政策的变化。总的来说,本文解释了这些MLP创新如何支持监禁后返回社区的人的权利,并可用于减轻刑事法律制度的参与。
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.