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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.


For people exiting prison between 2008 and 2019, state-level three-year reincarceration rates have declined by 23%, according to an analysis by The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center. Among those released in 2008, the three-year reincarceration rate was 35%, which dropped to 27% among those released in 2019. During this 15-year span after the Second Chance Act was enacted, the number of states with three-year reincarceration rates above 45% has declined from 11 states… Read