立场声明:通过RESTORE法案 (通过资源和必需品机会支持重新入境)
Lisa R LaRowe1, Gwyneth Frederick2, Roger Figueroa2
1Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Translational behavioral medicine
|January 13, 2024
概括
联邦政策禁止有重罪毒品定罪的个人获得食物和现金援助. 废除这一禁令支持重新入境,减少健康不平等,并打击重犯.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生政策 卫生政策
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 根据"个人责任和工作机会和解法" (PRWORA) 的现行联邦政策,对有重罪毒品定罪的个人实施终身禁止补充营养援助计划 (SNAP) 和需要帮助的家庭临时援助 (TANF) 福利.
- 这一政策有助于结构性健康不平等,阻碍了以前被监禁的人成功重新进入社会,并可能增加重犯率.
- 行为医学研究强调了这些禁令对个人福祉和社区重新融入的有害影响.
研究的目的:
- 倡导废除终身禁止SNAP和TANF福利给有重罪毒品定罪的个人.
- 突出当前政策对公共卫生,社会公平和重犯的负面影响.
- 支持立法努力,如RESTORE ACT,旨在消除这些障碍.
主要方法:
- 对PRWORA的政策分析及其对弱势群体的影响.
- 审查现有的关于重罪剥夺权利对健康和重新入境的影响的文献.
- 根据损害的证据,支持RESTORE ACT的声明.
主要成果:
- 终身禁令加剧了现有的健康差异,并为成功重新入境创造了重大障碍.
- 拒绝基本的营养和财务支持可能会导致健康状况较差,并增加犯罪复发的可能性.
- 修复法案提供了一种立法解决方案,以减轻这些负面后果.
结论:
- 取消对SNAP和TANF的终身禁令对于重罪毒品定罪的人来说,对于促进健康公平和成功的重新入境至关重要.
- 支持像RESTORE ACT这样的政策对于解决以前被监禁的人所面临的系统性障碍至关重要.
- 行为医学学会支持消除这些障碍,以促进更健康的个人和社区.
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