FACT SHEET Consequences of nontreatment (overview)
Treatment Advocacy Center

"Inmates with mental illnesses on average are six times more expensive to care for than other inmates and their average stay is significantly longer, according to a report from the National GAINS Center, a New York-based group that collects data on mental illness and addiction."
- From "Cycle of despair; Petty offenses keep the homeless swinging between life on the streets and time in jail. Critics say it's an expensive and self-defeating cycle," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Feb. 3, 2002

FACT SHEET Violence
Treatment Advocacy Center

FACT SHEET Suicide
Treatment Advocacy Center

FACT SHEET Victimization
Treatment Advocacy Center

FACT SHEET Homelessness
Treatment Advocacy Center

FACT SHEET Criminalization/incarceration
Treatment Advocacy Center

STATISTICS Number of mentally ill inmates, probationers in US
Bureau of Justice Statistics

RESOURCE Preventable Tragedies database - searchable by state
Treatment Advocacy Center

STATISTICS Florida’s crime rate at a glance
Florida Department of Law Enforcement

STATISTICS Florida's inmate population broken down by demographics and economics
Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research

RESOURCE Monthly/annual reports of Florida's average inmate populations
Florida Department of Corrections

STATISTICS Uniform Crime Reports offense data (includes crime by county and violent crime rates)
Florida Department of Law Enforcement