Passageway: A Novel Approach to Success of Conditional Release - Principles and Constructs of the Model Residential Program for the Forensic Mentally III Patient.

Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 8404861 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1099-0798 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 07353936 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Behav Sci Law Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: New York, N.Y. : John Wiley And Sons
Original Publication: [New York, N.Y. : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1983-

Commitment of Mentally Ill/*legislation & jurisprudence ; Forensic Psychiatry/*methods ; Mentally Ill Persons/*legislation & jurisprudence ; Patient Discharge/*legislation & jurisprudence ; Psychotic Disorders/*rehabilitation; Crime ; Florida ; Forensic Psychiatry/standards ; Housing ; Humans ; Insanity Defense ; Mentally Ill Persons/psychology ; Patient Discharge/standards ; Prisons ; Psychotic Disorders/psychology

With the advent of psychotropic medications and with the deinstitutionalization of psychiatry starting in 1968, patients were prematurely discharged from forensic state hospitals. Due to lack of resources, psychiatric forensic patients ended up in the correctional system or homeless with the reduction of psychiatric beds in forensic and civil state hospitals. Lacking proper training and medication management, the recidivism rate of this population was close to 10% for rearrest and about 35% for revocation of conditional release (CR; Manguno-Mire et al., ). A new treatment modality was created to successfully transition patients from the forensic state hospital system to the community. This article describes and analyzes the principles and constructs of Passageway, a model residential program for patients found not guilty by reason of insanity or those incompetent to proceed to CR. The CR allows for a program like Passageway to be successful in transitioning patients back into the community. This is accomplished with minimal government funding, and since 1982 has resulted in a 0% recidivism rate, for any known arrests or convictions and for recommittal of a felony, defined in the state of Florida as, "any criminal offense that is punishable under the laws of this state, or that would be punishable, if committed in this state, by death or imprisonment in a state penitentiary. " (Fla. Stat. § 775.08). Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Date Created: 20160422 Date Completed: 20170303 Latest Revision: 20170303

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