Correctional Health Care, Reentry & Diversion Services

The corrections health care, re-entry, and diversion market is defined as the provision of medical and behavioral 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 offenses. 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.

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Correctional Populations In The United States, 2013

This report was published by The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics in December of 2014, and estimates the size of the 2013 U.S. correctional population, as well as the change in the size of that population from 2012. Read