A collaborative community-based treatment program for offenders with mental illness.

Objective: The paper describes initial results of collaboration between a mental health treatment program at a community mental health center in Baltimore and a probation officer of the U.S. federal prison system to serve the mental health needs of offenders on federal probation, parole, supervised release, or conditional release in the community.

A model program for the treatment of mentally ill offenders in the community.

There is a new and growing interest among community mental health providers and administrators in the area of correctional psychiatry. From a column in Psychiatric Times to committees and task forces in APA and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, increased attention is being paid to the great need for the treatment of mentally ill offenders. In this article, we will introduce the reader to the magnitude of the correctional system and to the prevalence of mental illness in the correctional population.

Insanity defense pleas in Baltimore City: an analysis of outcome.

Objective: The authors studied all defendants in Baltimore City's circuit and district courts who pleaded not criminally responsible, Maryland's version of the not guilty by reason of insanity plea, during a 1-year period. The study was designed to compare the perception that the insanity plea is misused to actual outcome data.

Method: The cohort of defendants who pleaded not criminally responsible in both the circuit and district courts during calendar year 1991 was identified.

Congenital cardiovascular malformations (CCVM) and structural chromosome abnormalities: a report of 9 cases and literature review.

Nine cases of congenital cardiovascular malformations (CCVM) with associated unbalanced structural chromosomal abnormalities were ascertained in a population-based study of heart defects, constituting 0.4% of the 2,103 cases of CCVM in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study (BWIS). This represents a four-fold increase over the general population rate.