Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
This essay is a response to Professor Den Houter's article entitled Children are Not Inmates in which she effectively calls eliminating the exclusion of indigent incarcerated children from Medicaid coverage pursuant to the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP). This essay affirms and builds upon Professor Den Houter's recommendation. Part I of this response provides additional support for why ensuring system-involved youth receive timely, uninterrupted, high-quality behavioral health services is critical to improving both public health and public safety. Part II analyzes the benefits and risks attendant to excluding indigent incarcerated children from the MIEP. Part III proposes the implementation of additional guardrails to ensure that system-involved youth actually receive the services they need to develop into healthy adults.
Publication Citation
Ohio State Law Journal Online, Vol. 86, Pp. 1-13.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Ferrer, Eduardo R., "Promoting Public Health and Public Safety By Ending the Exclusion of Incarcerated Children from Access to Medicaid" (2025). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2686.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2686
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