Brewer asks about recidivism among mentally ill people returning to Rikers
Brewer asks about recidivism rates for people in mental health programs. Epstein says CHS does not track recidivism as a health care service, though many patients return, and Otonichar says CHS could look into available data.
I mean, I just know how folks are.
Okay.
Number two is, do you have any sense of those recidivism who have been in your mental health programs who may or may not be homeless?
But what is the recidivism rate for those who have been at Rikers, obviously awaiting something, and who are returning who are mentally, you consider mentally ill?
Do you have any sense of that?
So we're not tracking recidivism as the health care service.
We do know that many of our patients do return.
We know that.
We don't have any sense of those that are mentally ill.
In terms of analysis, we could look into what we have, other agencies may have data on returns.
Okay.
I mean, that's what the issue is out there in the community.
That's what's said, whether it's true or not.