Service transitions, interventions and care pathways following remittal to prison from medium secure psychiatric services in England and Wales: national cohort study.

Findings suggest that persons returned to prison are a vulnerable group of patients, many of whom require intervention (e.g. enhanced monitoring, admission to a healthcare wing, readmission to secure mental health services) on return to prison in the absence of targeted aftercare services. More robust guidance for discharge and aftercare planning procedures for persons remitted to prison should be developed to ensure that the benefits of in-patient admission are maintained and that individuals' legal rights to ongoing aftercare are upheld.