After the encouraging results of the pilot, the investigators conducted a full-scale randomized trial at three prisons in Manchester, Leeds and Brixton to test the effectiveness of CTI in improving engagement with services and reducing re-offending.
This project utilized a combination of research methods with 99 prisoners and members of their social support networks to adapt CTI for female inmates in the predominantly rural state of New Mexico. This was in preparation for a larger study of the effectiveness of the adapted CTI in enhancing mental health and criminal justice outcomes.
This is the first randomized trial to test CTI following incarceration. It tested the effectiveness of CTI in preventing re-offending and improving community integration for 215 men with serious mental illness, who had been released to Camden County from seven New Jersey prisons.
This pilot randomized trial tested the feasibility of two different models of implementing CTI with mentally ill men upon release from prisons in London and Manchester: 1) prison-based and 2) community-based with the CTI manager visiting the prison.