NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services (CHS) is responsible for providing healthcare to all individuals incarcerated in the NYC jail system. This includes providing reentry support to facilitate continuity of care and a successful transition back to the community. Through the generous support of T-Mobile and Premier Wireless, CHS has been able to provide hundreds of people leaving custody with a free smartphone with a twelve-month service plan. We believe it is the first public-private initiative to distribute free cell phones with prepaid service among people just released from jail at a sizeable scale, and it has the potential to mitigate the deleterious impact
of incarceration on health outcomes.