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August 2007
 Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction: Data Supplement Issue
Seven months after 28 California counties started their Mentally Ill
Offender Crime Reduction (MIOCR) grant projects, preliminary results show
a 96% reduction in jail days for adult offenders and a 70% reduction in
detention days for juvenile offenders. The MIOCR programs support locally
developed efforts to reduce recidivism and promote long-term stability
among mentally ill offenders. Other preliminary results included:
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Bookings for adult offenders were down by 83%
from the previous 12 months. During the 12 months prior to program
enrollment, adult offenders had a total of 563 jail bookings. After
enrollment and through August 2007, the participants had a total of 55
bookings; based on that level the reporting counties projected that
bookings for the year would be 94.
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Homelessness is down from 40% to seven percent
with group total of 990 days. In the previous year participants reported
being homeless with a group total of 16,049 days.
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Petitions filed among juvenile offenders have
dropped by 79%, from 324 in the year before enrollment, to 40 in the
first seven months. The counties project that only 69 petitions will be
filed by the end of the year.
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