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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.


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