Notes
1. Integrated Services Reduce Recidivism Among
Homeless Adults with Serious Mental Illness in California. Fact sheet
from the National GAINS Center, Delmar, NY, and available at wwww.gainsctr.com.
2. Data from the Vermont Mental Health Performance
Indicator Project of the State Department of Developmental and Mental
Health Services, Waterbury, VT. See www.state.vt.us/dmh/Data/PIPs/
3. Buck, J.A. (2001). Spending for State Mental Health
Care. Psychiatric Services 52(10): 1294; and Buck, Jeffrey A.,
Medicaid and Mental Health Services: Beliefs and Reality. (May
5, 2002). Presentation at National Association of State Mental Health
Advisory Councils meeting, Orlando, Florida.
4. Locked Out: The Voices of Homeless People
with Mental Illnesses. (June 10, 1999) San Francisco: Coalition on
Homelessness.
5. For more information on food stamp benefits see
Rosen, Jeremy, Hoey, Rebecca and Steed, Theresa, Food Stamp and SSI Benefits:
Removing Access Barriers for Homeless People. (March-April, 2001) Clearinghouse
Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy. 679-696.
6. For further information on the SSI, SSDI, Medicaid
and Medicare rules for adults with mental illnesses who are incarcerated,
see Finding the Key, Washington,
DC: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
7. Rubenstein, Gwen. (2001). Getting to Work:
How TANF Can Support Ex-Offender Parents in the Transition to Self-Sufficiency.
Washington, DC: Legal Action Center.
8. Rubenstein, Gwen. (2001). Getting to Work:
How TANF Can Support Ex-Offender Parents in the Transition to Self-Sufficiency.
Washington, DC: Legal Action Center.
9. In particular, the following documents are useful:
SI 00520.900 - Prerelease Procedure for the Institutionalized (provides
an overview); SI 00520.910 Prerelease Agreements - Institutionalization
(describes responsibilities of correctional facility and the SSA); SI
00520.920 - Processing PreReleases Cases (describes SSA procedures) and
SI 00520.930 - Exhibits (includes a model PreRelease Agreement).
10. Cindy Lackey, Senior Policy Analyst, Council
of State Governments Final Results of State Medicaid Agencies Survey
in memorandum to Fred Osher, Director of Center for Behavioral Health,
Justice and Public Safety. (October 16, 2000). New York, NY: Council of
State Governments.
11. According to a letter dated April 6, 2000 from
then-Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Donna E.
Shalaja, to Congressman Charles Rangel, states "must ensure that the incarcerated
individual is returned to the rolls immediately upon release, unless the
State has determined that the individual is no longer eligible for some
other reason." This federal policy was confirmed in a letter dated October
1, 2001 from Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, again
written to Congressman Charles Rangel.
12. See 7 CFR 273.2(g)(1) regarding opportunity
to participate in food stamp prior to release. This policy was also confirmed
December 20, 2002, by Patricia Maggi, Certification Policy Branch, Food
Stamp Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture in an email message to the
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
13. For juveniles, see Guidelines for Reviewing
SSI Disability Benefits for Children and Adolescents with Mental Disorders,
(September 1997) American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists,
Washington, D.C. www.aacap.org. For
adults, see SSA Issues New Rules Governing Mental Impairment Claims
(October 1985), Clearinghouse Review, pp. 715723. For a print copy, send
request with a self-addressed envelope (6" x 9" or larger with $.60 postage)
to Publications, Bazelon Center, 1101 15th Street NW, Suite
1212, Washington DC 20005.
14. Members of the Options Committee include representatives
from the sheriff's department, the County Executive office, departments
of health, mental health, probation and social services, office of the
public defender and state division of parole.
15. Material in this section from the National GAINS
Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System:
Maintaining Medicaid Benefits for Jail Detainees with Co-Occurring Mental
Health and Substance Use Disorders. Spring 2002.
16. Available on the Bazelon Center's website, www.bazelon.org.
17. Council of State Governments, Criminal Justice/Mental
Health Consensus Project (June, 2002). New York: Council of State
Governments. Available www.consensusproject.org.
Table 1 Notes
1. Based on admission rates reported in Bureau of Justice
Statistics Bulletin, Census of Jails, 1999 (August 2001, NCJ
186633, p. 5) multiplied by the percentage of jail inmates with a mental
illness (16.3%) reported in Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report,
Mental Health Treatment of Inmates and Probationers (July 1999,
NCJ 174463).
2. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, Mental
Health Treatment of Inmates and Probationers (NCJ 174463).
3. Id.
4. Cocozza, Joseph. J., & Skowyra, Kathleen R. Youth
with Mental Health Disorders: Issues and Emerging Responses. (April, 2000).
Juvenile Justice, Volume VII(1). Washington DC: Office of Juvenile
Justice & Delinquency Prevention.
5. Id.
6. Id.
7. Id.
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