A number of factors explain the influx of inmates with co-occurring disorders to jails and
prisons. These include the closing and “downsizing” of state mental hospitals, adoption of …

Widespread implementation of offender reentry programming has increased justice program
evaluations but few have featured research designs sufficiently rigorous to optimally inform …

Objective: This study assessed transitions to community mental health services among
individuals with co-occurring disorders upon release from jail. Methods: Data from jail and …

Purpose: Today, the criminal justice system is annually placing more than 300,000 people
with severe mental illness (SMI) in prisons and jails which are neither equipped nor staffed …

According to the US Department of Justice, the number of offenders with mental illness is
staggering with estimates of approximately 700,000 adults with mental illness entering …

The transfer of offender supervision from prisons to community corrections has prioritized the
implementation of reentry programming and outcome evaluation oriented toward impact …

Estimates indicate that nearly half of rural jail detainees meet the criteria for co-occurring
disorders (COD). It is critical to examine factors of recidivism among detainees with COD in …

The significant expansion of correctional populations in the last decade, coupled with the
gradual erosion of community treatment infrastructure and health insurance, have brought …

The extent to which therapeutic community (TC) methods meet the treatment needs of
offenders with substance abuse disorders and co‐occurring psychiatric disorders in prison is …

Almost all jail inmates with mental illness will leave correctional settings and return to the
community. Inadequate transition planning puts jail inmates who entered the jail in a state of …