Creating New Options: Training
for Corrections Administrators and Staff on Access
to Federal Benefits for People with Mental Illnesses
Leaving Jail or Prison
A consumer-friendly booklet that explains what happens to federal benefits for people with disabilities when they go to jail or prison. (March 2004)
Building Bridges: An Act to Reduce Recidivism by Improving Access to Benefits for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities upon Release from Incarceration $4.00
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As the number of people with psychiatric disabilities in jails and prisons continues to rise, prison officials, state lawmakers and mental health advocates have become increasingly concerned about the effect of this trend on inmates, staff and state budgets. Building Bridges offers states a strategy to reduce recidivism and help recently released inmates with psychiatric disabilities successfully transition to community life. (April 2003) Also available for free download online.
The Role of Mental Health Courts in System Reform $3.00
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This document examines the use of mental health courts in the United States as a response by communities to the increasingly common arrest and incarceration of people with serious mental illnesses. Also available free online.
A Better Life, A Safer Community: Helping Inmates Access Federal Benefits $5.00
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This January 2003 paper discusses access to federal benefit programs for adults with serious mental illnesses and juveniles with serious mental or emotional disorders leaving jail, prison, juvenile detention or other correctional institutions.
Finding the Key to Successful Transition from Jail to Community
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Explains how criminal justice and mental health programs can help people with serious mental ilnesses being released from jail to qualify for federal Medicaid and disability benefits. 12 pp. 3/01.
Best Practices: Access to Benefits for Prisoners with Mental Illnesses $5.00
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Best Practices: Access to Benefits for Prisoners with Mental Illnesses, a Bazelon Center Issue Brief describing innovative approaches being used by state and county corrections systems to ensure that jail and prison inmates with mental illnesses have prompt access when released to income support, medical care and other services they need to re-enter the community successfully.
