Mental health courts appear to shorten jail time, reduce re-arrest for those with psychiatric illness
Monday, October 4, 2010 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Special mental health courts appear to be associated with lower post-treatment arrest rates and reduced number of days of incarceration for individuals with serious psychiatric illnesses, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the February 2011 print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.