Costs of Incarcerating Youth with Mental Illness: Final Report
Publication year:
2010
| Cataloged on:
Sep. 19, 2011
ANNOTATION: This project was “conducted for the primary purpose of informing public policy development by analyzing the costs and contexts related to incarcerating youth with mental illness and co-occurring mental illness/substance use disorders in California detention facilities (p. iii). Sections of this report include: introduction; background and context; study methods; results for basic facility costs, characteristics of detained youth, services and costs for mental health treatment, substance abuse services and costs, services and costs of general healthcare, costs of educational services, legal and court-related costs, and other costs; implications and recommendations; and limitation of the study and recommendations for further research. It costs $18, 800 more to care for youth with mental illness than for those without it.
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