Often prompted by limitations in resources, corrections officials have begun to explore innovative partnerships and financial arrangements with universities or community-providers that provide housing and health care services to inmates after release. These partnerships, such as Project Bridge in Rhode Island and the Hampden County Correctional Center in Massachusetts, have demonstrated positive outcomes among patients and show promise for the future of correctional health care. Project Bridge participants have kept an average of two appointments every two months, and average 19.5 encounters with social workers and 22 encounters with outreach staff every six months, at a cost of $8,400 or less for the 18-month program. Initial findings of a three-year study of the Hampden County program indicate that it is cost-effective, has led to lower rates of re-incarceration, and has increased the number of released prisoners receiving medical care. In both programs improved outcomes have been attributed to the continuity of care that is achieved by partnerships between corrections and community agencies. ^[1]