PMID- 26377383
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160622
LR  - 20201209
IS  - 1940-5200 (Electronic)
IS  - 1078-3458 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 4
DP  - 2015 Oct
TI  - The Use of Medically Recommended Intensive Supervision (Medical Parole) in Texas.
PG  - 375-89
LID - 10.1177/1078345815600158 [doi]
AB  - For more than 20 years, lawmakers in Texas acknowledged that offenders with 
      special needs such as the elderly, physically handicapped, and mentally impaired 
      who are housed in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice presented challenges 
      in health care and cost. In response to these perceived needs, the Texas 
      legislature created "medically recommended intensive supervision" (MRIS) to 
      permit the early release of eligible offenders. This article examines how and why 
      the MRIS law was implemented. It also discusses how MRIS is being utilized in 
      Texas. Next, it delineates the MRIS process an offender must endure. The article 
      elaborates on recent legislative attempts to amend the MRIS law. Finally, several 
      conclusions about the use of MRIS in Texas are discussed.
CI  - (c) The Author(s) 2015.
FAU - Ethridge, Philip A
AU  - Ethridge PA
AD  - Department of Criminal Justice, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg 
      Campus, TX, USA pethridge@utpa.edu.
FAU - White, Thomas G
AU  - White TG
AD  - Department of Criminal Justice, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg 
      Campus, TX, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Correct Health Care
JT  - Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National 
      Commission on Correctional Health Care
JID - 9503759
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Aged
MH  - Criminal Law/legislation & jurisprudence/*organization & administration
MH  - *Criminals
MH  - Disabled Persons/*rehabilitation
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Persons with Mental Disabilities/rehabilitation
MH  - Terminally Ill
MH  - Texas
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Texas
OT  - medical supervision
OT  - parole
OT  - prisons
EDAT- 2015/09/18 06:00
MHDA- 2016/06/23 06:00
CRDT- 2015/09/18 06:00
PHST- 2015/09/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/09/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [medline]
AID - 21/4/375 [pii]
AID - 10.1177/1078345815600158 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Correct Health Care. 2015 Oct;21(4):375-89. doi: 10.1177/1078345815600158.