and African Americans in the state are four times more likely than Whites to be justice-involved. Texas has the 7 th highest imprisonment rate in the U.S.In 2020, it is projected that the justice-involved population will be 145,553 in adult incarceration and 1,209 in juvenile secure facilities, with another 334,525 people on parole or probation. Texas incarcerates 563 people per 100,000 residents.Additionally, 37 percent of prisoners and 44 percent of jail inmates had previously been told they had a mental health condition. A study conducted from February 2011 to May 2012 found that 1 out of every 7 people in state and federal prisons (14 percent) and 1 out of every 4 people in jails (26 percent) reported having a serious mental illness.We recommend using respectful language such as “justice-involved,” “consumer” (instead of patient), or “person in jail” which are consistent with treatment and a person’s capacity to change. Thus, we discourage using “prisoner,” “felon,” or “offender” as these terms wrongly emphasize the symptom (incarceration) over the condition (mental illness). The person returning to the community is a human being who also happened to have a mental illness and was involved with the justice system. The use of thoughtful, humanizing, and destigmatizing language helps to restore the identity and dignity of a person recovering from mental illness who has been incarcerated.
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