Public health and criminal justice
Promoting and protecting the mental health and wellbeing of offenders can have wide-ranging benefits for individuals, their families and their communities.
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Diversion dividend
Diverting offenders to community support rather than prisons would save money in the justice system and reduce reoffending rates.
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The Bradley Report and the Criminal Justice Workforce
This paper examines what justice workers need to help them to help to implement the 82 recommendations of Lord Bradley’s review of how the justice system supports people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
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Diversion
Diverting people with mental health problems from prison is good value for taxpayers money but existing diversion arrangements are not achieving their potential.
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On the Outside
Continuity of care is especially important for released prisoners with mental health problems to help them get their lives back on track on the outside.
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Briefing 36: Police and mental health
This briefing calls on the NHS to manage health care for people in police custody and to take a more active role in diverting people with mental health problems to the services they need.
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From the inside
It sets out what prisoners themselves say they need to improve their mental health: ‘someone to talk to’, ‘something to do’ during the day and practical help to plan for what they will do after they are released.
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