TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose – This chapter describes the problem of and approaches to ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities exiting correctional custody. Although all ex-inmates must find housing and employment, persons with psychiatric disabilities require linkages to various health-related services and supports. These linkages are necessary, but it is unknown whether they are sufficient because discharge planning services and transition programs for ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities historically lack an evidence base.Approach – After a decade, the first-generation re-entry programs for ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities have yielded little in the way of empirical data, but they have provided models for program expansion and imperatives for second-generation program assessment. Related research findings for first- and second-generation programs are highlighted with an emphasis on a unique statewide program in Massachusetts.Findings – A review of the first- and second-generation programs suggests that progress has been slow in identifying empirically supported best practices for this population. There is a growing evidence base that community reintegration outcomes for ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities are the result of demographic and criminal history variations, yet implications of these variations needs further exploration in the realms of service access and receptivity as well as variations in postrelease adaptation.Implications – More knowledge and innovative research is needed on the experience of ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities and social integration. Resources for cost effectiveness studies as well as long-term follow-up qualitative studies are necessary.
VL  - 17
SN  - 978-1-84950-737-0, 978-1-84950-736-3/0196-1152
DO  - 10.1108/S0196-1152(2010)0000017012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0196-1152(2010)0000017012
AU  - Hartwell Stephanie
ED  - Mark Peyrot
ED  - Stacy Lee Burns
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities returning to the community from correctional custody: The forensic transition team approach after a decade
T2  - New Approaches to Social Problems Treatment
T3  - Research in Social Problems and Public Policy
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 263
EP  - 283
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -