The Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender Program: Cost Effectiveness 2.5 Years after Participants’ Prison Release

Compassionate Release of Chronically and Terminally Ill Inmates and its Implications for Nigerian Criminal Justice Administration

This study examines the policy and practice of compassionate release of terminally ill prisoners and its implications for Nigerian criminal justice administration. Qualitative methodology using structured interview was adopted to elicit data from key informants and content analysis was used in data analysis. The study revealed that the health status of inmates and health care delivery in prison...

Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction Grant Program Overview of Statewide Evaluation Findings

Recidivism and use of services among persons with mental illness after release from prison.

OBJECTIVE Despite large numbers of mentally ill offenders in prisons, few studies of mentally ill offenders released from prison have been conducted. This study describes such a population of mentally ill offenders, the postrelease services they received, new offenses they committed, and factors associated with recidivism. METHODS The authors reviewed electronic files and archived medical cha...

Follow-up after release of insanity acquittees, mentally disordered offenders, and convicted felons.

The authors compared 127 insanity acquittees in the state of Maryland with a matched prisoner control group of 127 convicted felons and a comparison group of 135 mentally disordered prisoners transferred for hospital treatment. Subjects were followed from five to 17 years after discharge from hospital or release from prison. Subsequent arrests, hospitalizations, employment, and functioning of t...

Community intervention with the mentally ill offender: a residential program.

The shortage of shelter as an alternative to continued hospitalization has been identified as a major reason for the retention of up to 57 per cent of currently hospitalized patients (Pollack and Taube, 1975). This shortage has serious ramifications for certain populations at risk, particularly mentally ill offenders for whom careful planning upon release from a hospital is especially critical....