Correctional Health Care, Reentry & Diversion Services

The corrections health care, re-entry, and diversion market is defined as the provision of medical and behavioural health services to the incarcerated, services to ease the transition back into the community, and diversion services related to decreasing or avoiding jail time for certain offences. The corrections market faces a number of challenges including the high number of individuals with serious mental illness, an increasingly female population, providing adequate care, and helping former inmates adapt and succeed in the community.

Latest Resources

• Florida Senate Bill 168: Mental Health, The ‘Tristin Murphy Act’ 
• Alabama Adopts Legislation To Act On Recommendations For Improving Reentry Support 
• Zenova Reaches 100,000 Virtual Emergency Care Encounters In U.S. Correctional Facilities 
• Court-Ordered Assisted Outpatient Treatment Improved Broad Range Of Outcomes In People With SMI 
• Indiana Awards Contracts Valued At $43 Million For Project CREATE Inpatient Competency Restoration Services  
• California Medicaid MCO Health Net Awards $2.6 Million To Hope Cooperative To Connect Justice-Involved People In Reentry To Services 
• Cash Assistance May Curb Recidivism Among People Leaving Prison 
• Correctional Health Care Organization Wellpath Emerges From Chapter 11 Reorganization
• Policy & Procedural Challenges Are Top Barriers Preventing Jails From Providing Medications For Opioid Use Disorder
• North Carolina Expands Pilot Competency Restoration Options
• YesCare Receives Kentucky License To Operate Opioid Treatment Program Inside Louisville Metro Department Of Corrections
• Receiver To Take Over California Prisons’ Mental Health Program To Develop Suicide Prevention Action Plan
• HealthCare Access Maryland Partners With Centurion Health To Ensure Incarcerated Medicaid-Eligible Beneficiaries Are Enrolled To Support Reentry Services
• Corrections & Care
• Bicycle Health & Wellpath Sign Contract Extension For Virtual Opioid Use Disorder Treatment For People In Prison Reentry Program

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California Justice-Involved Reentry Initiative Expands To Prisons Statewide Ahead of Schedule

On February 10, 2025, the California Department of Health Care Services DHCS, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), and California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS) announced the expansion of the Justice-Involved Reentry Initiative to the state’s 31 prisons. County jails and youth detention facilities in San Joaquin County are also launching the initiative in February 2025, joining Inyo, Santa Clara, and Yuba counties, which began offering pre-release services in October 2024. By October 1,… Read

• California Justice-Involved Reentry Initiative Expands To Prisons Statewide Ahead of Schedule
• Casper, Wyoming Municipal Court Establishes A Mental Health Diversion Program
• Clark County, Nevada Selects NaphCare To Provide Comprehensive Correctional Health Care Services
• Wellpath’s Former Recovery Solutions Emerges From Reorganization As An Independent Business
• California Now Allows For Extended Detention Of Violent Offenders With Severe Mental Illness

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