Driscoll Signs onto Prison Mitigation Funding Letter to DPH
- Feb 17
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FEBRUARY 17, 2026
Following a decrease in prison mitigation funding in the FY26 budget, nine communities were impacted as a hosting a correctional facility accrues an additional financial burden on their Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
Senator Bill Driscoll Jr. (D-Milton) recently signed onto a letter addressed to Commissioner Robbie Goldstein at the Department of Public Health (DPH), calling on the department’s diversion of $5 million to those communities impacted by the loss of prison mitigation funds.
You can read the full letter, here:
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