Mental Health Advocates Seek Solutions for Safer Re-entry of Inmates Into Colorado Communities

CEO of Mental Health Colorado Vincent Atchity said he has concerns about what happens when the inmates are released. He called it a “revolving door experience” because inmates lose that consistent access to care, or don’t seek it out, and go back into our communities and re-offend.

“We’ve got a cyclical experience of individuals who are discharged, their medication runs out, they revert to illegally self medicating through whatever is available out there, or simply go off their medication altogether. And one way or another, their condition and behavior deject,” Atchity said.