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Chapter IV: Incarceration and Reentry

One of the most dramatic public policy shifts (some refer to it as a "social experiment") in the last 25 years in the United States has been the near quadrupling of the number of people who are incarcerated. The number of people incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, at any one time is 6.5 million, an increase of 240 percent since 1980. Approximately 10 million people are booked into U.S. jails each year. continue... 		 
Introduction: Incarceration and Reentry

Policy Statement 17: Receiving and Intake of Sentenced Inmates

Policy Statement 18: Development of Treatment Plans, Assignment to Programs, and Classification / Housing Decisions

Policy Statement 19: Subsequent Referral for Screening and Mental Health Evaluation

Policy Statement 20: Release Decision

Policy Statement 21: Development of Transition Plan

Policy Statement 22: Modification of Conditions of Supervised Release

Policy Statement 23: Maintaining Contact Between Individual and Mental Health System

 

 
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