ArticleHealth services research2019
Do timely mental health services reduce re-incarceration among prison releasees with severe mental illness?
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- Forensic assertive community treatment: an emerging best practice.CNS spectrums · 2025Review
- Racial Differences in Self-Report of Mental Illness and Mental Illness Treatment in the Community: An Analysis of Jail Intake Data.Administration and policy in mental health · 2023Article
- HIV/STI/HCV Risk Clusters and Hierarchies Experienced by Women Recently Released from Incarceration.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Association of Mental Health Services Access and Reincarceration Among Adults Released From Prison in British Columbia, Canada.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Multimorbidity and quality of primary care after release from prison: a prospective data-linkage cohort study.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Community investment interventions as a means for decarceration: A scoping review.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2022Article
- Association between contact with mental health and substance use services and reincarceration after release from prison.PloS one · 2022Article
- Continuity of mental health care during the transition from prison to the community following brief periods of imprisonment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Medicaid Expansion's Spillover to the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Six Urban Counties.The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF · 2020Article
- Do timely mental health services reduce re-incarceration among prison releasees with severe mental illness?Health services research · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether the receipt of timely mental health services is associated with changes in criminal justice interactions. DATA SOURCES: We used linked administrative data from Medicaid, mental health, and criminal justice settings in Washington State for persons with severe mental illness released from prison (n = 3086). STUDY
designWe estimate local and average treatment effects to examine measures of criminal justice use in the year following release as a function of timely mental health services. DATA EXTRACTION
methodsMeasures of timely service and criminal justice use within 12 months postrelease were created from administrative data. PRINCIPAL
findingsIndividuals receiving timely mental health services are more likely to experience prison re-incarceration overall and specifically for technical violations 12 months postrelease. The effect of service receipt on incarceration for new charges was negative but not significant.
conclusionsThe finding that mental health services receipt is associated with increased risk of re-incarceration due to technical violations speaks to the complexity of the relationship between mental health and criminal justice services for justice-involved persons with severe mental illness. Further research should examine strategies at the interface of criminal justice and mental health that can improve mental health and criminal justice outcomes for this vulnerable population.
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