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

• 2025 National Survey On Drug Use & Health
• Lucas County, Ohio, Awards $17,660,050 Correctional Health Care Contract To Armor Health
• The GEO Group Signs ICE Contract For Company-Owned 1,320-Bed Rivers Facility In North Carolina
• Only 58% Of U.S. Correctional Facilities Offer Medications For Opioid Use Disorder
• Connecting Point Partners With Qualifacts To Strengthen Care Coordination For Nevada County, California Justice-Involved Individuals
• Judge Finalizes Arizona Prison Health Care Receivership Amid Multi-Year Class Action Lawsuit & Constitutional Violations
• Wellpath Awarded $4.2 Million Correctional Medical Contract In Buncombe County, North Carolina
• Philadelphia Terminates YesCare Jail Health Contract Following Bankruptcy; CFG Health Takes Over Early
• Placer County, California Approves Seven-Year, $131 Million Jail Health Care Contract With Correctional Healthcare Partners
• Correctional Medical Company YesCare Files For Bankruptcy
• Moving Ahead With Social  
• Kentucky Launches Medicaid Reentry Coverage For Individuals Preparing For Release From State Custody
• Alabama DOC Terminates YesCare’s $1.06 Billion Prison Health Care Contract & Selects NaphCare As Replacement
• Reinventing Mobile Crisis
• Missouri Enacts Sentencing Reform Law Establishing Minimum Time Served Requirements

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Only 58% Of U.S. Correctional Facilities Offer Medications For Opioid Use Disorder

About 58% of correctional facilities in the United States offer medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Jails were twice as likely to offer MOUD as prisons. About 17% of state prison inmates and 19% of jail inmates meet criteria for OUD. Regional disparities existed: correctional facilities in the Western states were 3.67 times more likely to offer MOUD than those in the Midwest. The researchers analyzed a survey of 268 correctional health professionals representing 212… Read

• Missouri Senate Bill 882: Modifies Provisions Relating To Criminal Offenses, Including Minimum Prison Terms & Conditional Release
• Oklahoma Fails To Meet Consent Decree Requirements On Timely Competency Restoration
• Wyoming Rebids Jail & Community Corrections IOP Addiction Treatment Contracts With July 2026 Start
• Half Of U.S. Jails Are More Than 30 Minutes From Opioid Treatment Programs, Limiting MOUD Access
• U.S. Reincarceration Rates Fall To 28%, With 30,000 Fewer Annual Returns To Prison

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