Mental Health

Half of Women on Probation or Parole Experience Mental Illness [PDF]
SAMHSA, March, 2012
“[A]mong women aged 18 to 49, about half of those who had been on probation (49.4%) or on parole (54.2%) in the past year experienced any mental illness in the past year, compared with 27.5 percent of women who had not been on probation or parole.”
Youth in Minnesota Correctional Facilities and the Effects of Trauma Responses to the 2010 Minnesota Students Survey, [PDF]
Minnesota Department of Public Safety, March, 2012
“[O]ver half of youth in correctional facilities report at least one form of trauma on the MSS (53%) compared to just over one-quarter of a matched sample of mainstream students (28%).”
When Treatment is Punishment The Effects of Maryland's Incompetency to Stand Trial Policies and Practices, [PDF]
Justice Policy Institute, October, 2011
“Too many people found not competent to stand trial are unnecessarily locked in a secure setting for treatment and, on average, confined for longer periods than research demonstrates is clinically reasonable.”
Medicine and the Epidemic of Incarceration in the United States [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, June, 2011
“[The Affordable Care Act] could redirect many people with serious illness away from the revolving door of the criminal justice system, thereby improving overall public health in the communities to which prisoners return and decreasing [recidivism] costs.”
Healing Invisible Wounds Why Investing in Trauma-Informed Care for Children Makes Sense, [PDF]
Justice Policy Institute, July, 2010
“Joseph Tulman between 75 and 93 percent of youth entering the juvenile justice system annually in this country have experienced some degree of trauma.”
More Mentally Ill Persons Are in Jails and Prisons Than Hospitals: A Survey of the States, [PDF]
Treatment Advocacy Center, May, 2010
“Among the ten states mostly likely to have mentally ill individuals in jails and prisons, five were also among the states spending the least money per capita.”
(New) Sexual Victimization Reported by Former State Prisoners, 2008 [PDF]
Bureau of Justice Statistics, May, 2010
“An estimated 9.6% of former state prisoners reported one or more incidents of sexual victimization during the most recent period of incarceration in jail, prison, and post-release community-treatment facility.”
New York State Assisted Outpatient Program Evaluation [PDF]
New York State Department of Public Health, June, 2009
Mental Illness and the Death Penalty in North Carolina A Diagnostic Approach, [PDF]
Charlotte School of Law, May, 2007
“[E]ntrenched obstacles within the criminal justice system impede efforts to recognize those with severe mental illness and to treat them fairly.”
Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates [PDF]
Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2006
“Female inmates had higher rates of mental health problems than male inmates (State prisons: 73% of females and 55% of males; Federal prisons: 61% of females and 44% of males; local jails: 75% of females and 63% of males).”
Implementation of "Kendra's Law" Is Severely Biased [PDF]
New York Lawyers For The Public Interest, Inc., April, 2005
“There are major racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities throughout New York State in the implementation of “Kendra’s Law” [,which allows courts to mandate outpatient treatment for some people with mental illness].”
The Role of Specialty Mental Health Courts in Meeting the Needs of Juvenile Offenders,
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, September, 2004
Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness,
Human Rights Watch, October, 2003
Status of Services for Persons with Mental Illness in Maine's Prisons: 2002,
The Citizen's Committee on Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, and Criminal Justice and NAMI Maine, September, 2002
Consensus Project Report
Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project, June, 2002
(project coordinated by the Council of State Governments (CSG))
Mentally Ill Offenders in the Criminal Justice System: An Analysis and Prescription, [PDF]
Sentencing Project, January, 2002
Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons [PDF]
Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2001
(None of the prison systems have any idea how many mentally ill prisoners they have. Using the BJS reports for anything other than whether or not prisoners identified as mentally ill are actually receiving services would be a mistake.)
Current Status of Services for Persons with Mental Illness in Maine's Jails and Prisons,
NAMI Maine, September, 2000
Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, April, 2000
From Prisons to Hospitals and Back The Criminalization of Mental Illness,
Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy, January, 2000
Mental Health and Treatment of Inmates and Probationers [PDF]
Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 1999
“More than a quarter million prison and jail inmates are identified as mentally ill”
Prisons and Jails: Hospitals of Last Resort: The Need for Diversion and Discharge Planning for Incarcerated People with Mental Illness in New York, [PDF]
Correctional Association of New York and the Urban Justice Center, 1999
Mental Illness in US Jails: Diverting the nonviolent, low-level offender, [PDF]
Center on Crime Communities and Culture, November, 1996

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