Boston Offender Needs Delivery Project

• DOI: 10.1177/0306624X17741807
• Published date: 01 August 2018
• Date: 01 August 2018
• Author: Taylor Hall,Emily Reichert,Leila Salem,Julianne Siegfriedt,Stephanie W. Hartwell
• Subject Matter: Articles

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International Journal of

Offender Therapy and

Comparative Criminology

2018, Vol. 62(11) 3485 –3498

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Boston Offender Needs

Delivery Project

Leila Salem, PhD1, Emily Reichert, MA1,

Julianne Siegfriedt, MA1, Taylor Hall, MA1,

and Stephanie W. Hartwell, PhD1

Abstract

To bridge a gap in access to community services for releasing state inmates, the

Boston Offender Needs Delivery (BOND) project was developed as a longitudinal

study (2014-2016) of adult inmates with a history of substance use and co-occurring

mental health disorders returning to the community following detention in one of

Massachusetts’ State correctional facilities. Pre-release inmates who were wrapping

up their sentence (i.e., no community supervision) and presented with mental illness

and/or substance use disorder were recruited. Participants were provided substance

abuse treatment immediately post-release, as well as a variety of recovery supports

for a follow-up period of 6 months. This first manuscript is intended to describe the

rationale behind the BOND project, as well as the methods and procedure used to

collect the data.

Keywords

inmate reentry, community rehabilitation, dual diagnosis, Boston reentry initiatives,

longitudinal study

Introduction

The increasing number of mentally ill individuals coming into contact with the crimi-

nal justice system has been associated with several changes occurring across the mul-

tiple waves of deinstitutionalization beginning in the 1960s (Lamb & Bachrach, 2001;

Wallace, Mullen, & Burgess, 2004). The objective of psychiatric deinstitutionalization

1University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Corresponding Author:

Dr. Leila Salem, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393, USA.

Email: Leila.salem@umb.edu

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