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Special Needs Populations with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Case scenarios and service delivery recommendations for mentally ill offenders are presented. The following sections are contained in this report: introduction -- there are 283,800 individuals with mental illness in prisons or jails; contributing factors -- front end cause and back end effect; incarceration and mental health treatment -- what should be done; management and supervision of individuals with mental illness in a jail or prison setting; alternatives to incarceration -- diversionary integrated service models; a glance at the work being done by Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Offices in New Jersey, Florida, New York, and South Carolina; and recommendations for P&A involvement.