Austin Travis County Integral Care Annual Report Fiscal Year 2015 | Page 8

Travis County
Sheriff’s Office
Statistics 2015

Health Justice Learning Collaborative:
Integral Care & Travis County Sheriff’s Office

There are now ten times more people with persistent and
serious mental illness in prison and jail than in state hospitals.
A study by the U.S. Department of Justice found that more than
half of all prison and jail inmates have mental health issues, yet
only 1 in 3 prison inmates and 1 in 6 jail inmates receive any form

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of treatment during their incarceration. In FY15, Travis County
was selected as one of three communities across the country
to participate in the Health Justice Learning Collaborative – an
initiative spearheaded by the National Council and the Major
County Sheriffs’ Association to improve the ways communities

INMATES SCREENED FOR
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

address the significant number of individuals incarcerated
with mental illness. Locally, Integral Care and the Travis County
Sheriff’s Office are collaborating to strengthen the community
re-entry process to ensure each individual is connected to
appropriate behavioral health services before being released
from jail. The expected result is avoidance of future involvemen