For the purposes of this evidence review, we define patients with serious mental illness (SMI) as individuals 18 years of age or older who currently have received a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depression. This report is a great introduction to strategies for treating offenders with serious mental illness (i.e., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, or major depression) in jails, prisons, forensic hospitals, or community reentry programs. Treatment-oriented probation can keep people with mental illness from reoffending. mental illness. A number of interventions have been developed for this population (e.g., mental health courts). Prevalence Rates. Mental health problems are 2 to 3 times more prevalent in federal penitentiaries than in the general population; Proportion of federal offenders with significant, identified mental health needs has more than doubled between 1997 and 2008: 71% increase in offenders diagnosed with mental disorders A study of 9,245 offenders in Utah’s state prisons, between 1998 and 2002, found that 23% met the criteria for a serious mental illness (Cloyes, Wong, Latimer, & Abarca, 2010). At the same time, institutional and socioeconomic changes have led to “It’s the many who are marginal or who have an addiction problem.” . Their focus on psychiatric services may poorly match the policy goal of … What about individuals with mental illness? 523 Within the past decade, reliance on the juvenile justice system to meet the needs of juvenile offenders with mental health concerns has increased. Th ey believe that if many of the people with mental illness received the services they Identifying, Treating, and Reducing Risk for Offenders . This study reviewed 36 months of postrelease data for nearly 10,000 New Jersey state inmates released in 2013 to ascertain the rearrest rate of those diagnosed with mental illness, substance use disorders, both, or neither. Given these challenges and their financial consequences for society and governments, it is important to understand how to identify and provide early intervention for those who suffer from mental illness in the criminal justice system. ... All those precursors to arrest listed above continue to haunt special needs offenders in the court system. offenders with mental illness in centennial correctional facility residential treatment program a report submitted to the joint budget committee due january 31, 2015, in response to department of corrections fy 2014‐15 rfi #1 prepared by alysha stucker office of planning and analysis . challenges of treating and processing offenders with mental illness in the criminal justice system. Their histories of abuse often fill the records of social agencies, police, courts and prisons. offenders. The recommendations described Some offenders with mental disorders are incarcerated in the federal correctional system rather than in provincial mental health facilities because they have been judged responsible for their crimes despite their illnesses. Correctional Services of Canada (2007) reports that inmates with a mental illness pose one of the most serious challenges to the modern correctional system in terms of managing and rehabilitating offenders. For example, in their meta-analysis, Bonta et al. of mental health services to inmates with mental illness in all Federal Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) correctional facilities. Background Involvement of Individuals With Serious Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System and Rationale for the Review. In another study, Adams and Ferrandino (2008) described the Participants consisted of 230 correctional mental health service providers from 165 state correctional facilities. in the criminal justice system because the mental health system has somehow failed. In some countries, there are more people with severe mental illness in correctional facilities than in mental health institutions. Services include crisis stabilization, family support, respite, in-home, and psychiatric care. More funding must be provided to mental health resources in the community, including programs that divert mentally ill offenders from going deep into the criminal justice system. Due to this tendency, research has been conducted on the effectiveness of various intervention and treatment programs/approaches with varied success.