The D.C jail is becoming one of the first correctional facilities in the nation that provide inmates with medical coverage that will carry even if they are no longer behind the bars.

Special care this program will offer men and women incarcerated in the city’s main detention center after they are released. The successful project in central Massachusetts was announced on 05.04.06 by Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) and other District officials.

"It's a very innovative, dynamic and comprehensive approach to the provision of inmate medical care," said the city's new corrections director, Devon Brown.

The jail has always had a long and bad history of deficiency in health care. This was form 1995 until 2000, medical and mental health services that use to operate under expensive, court-ordered receivership that had improved treatment at an average cost of $11 million a year.

Through this new initiative, the nonprofit organization Unity Health Care will take over inside the jail and begin watch that the men and women there, many of them suffering form hepatitis C, tuberculosis of HIV. But Unity Health Care will not close inmates’ files once they leave the facility it will continue to manage their care and records through number of clinics, centers and other medical institute. This plan will also operate across the District for the people with out insurance and underinsured.

Once they're discharged from the prison, we'll still be responsible," Chief Executive Vincent A. Keane said yesterday. "The emphasis is for less expensive care and more appropriate care."