Jails & Prisons -- Integration Mandate
Housing, Placements & Intensive Services for people with disabilities upon release from Jails or prisons
Brain Injury
"The prevalence of TBI within corrections is very high; although rates vary among sites, our pilot data from the Denver County Jail Mental Health Transition Unit suggests that up to 96% of those inmates have a history of at least one complicated TBI."
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Mental Illness
Colorado's Mentally Ill Cycle In & Out of Jails, Prison Systems
-------Last year, about one-third of the inmates booked into the El Paso County jail reported having mental health issues |
The number of inmates with mental health needs in Colorado's prisons has steadily risen in the past two decades, from about 4,500 in 1998 to about 10,700 last year.
More than 300 of the state's prison inmates have tried to complete suicide from the beginning of 2014 through the end of 2018. May 25, 2019 |