Executive Briefings | February 20, 2020
Reducing Recidivism By Speeding Medicaid Eligibility
The effects of mental illness and addiction on the corrections system is well known. Approximately 64% of inmates have a serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or a brief psychotic disorder, 53% suffer with addictions, and 49% of this population has coexisting mental health and addiction disorder issues (see Federal Policy Impacts On County Jail Inmate Healthcare & Recidivism and Serious Mental Illness Prevalence in Jails and Prisons . . .