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provide mental health or physical health treatment for prisoners. The establishment of the Veterans Resource Officers at the VA provides a great tool to assist in an offender’s re-entry into society. Each and every facility throughout the country, if they have not, should be contacting the VA to develop working relationships with staff assigned to assist veterans with their successful reintegration into the community. Anyone who works with a confined population realizes the necessity of people released without continuing treatment for conditions like PTSD and other issues may find themselves for a variety of reasons recycling into a variety of social ills to include Secondary Traumatic Stress which transmits combat trauma to family. The development of interventions and contacts with the VA to allow for successful reintegration begins long before a person is released from confinement and allows for transition and aftercare. For this and other reasons, every institution, whether they have a specialized veteran’s program or not, should be developing links to these VA program specialists. While Seamone’s book is much more a research document than a book, it is, as I stated at the onset of this review, a document each and every institution housing veterans should have available. Not only just

a research guide and information source, this book also provides a sense of what has been done, what is being done and what can be done to assist those in the criminal justice system who have been arrested, confined and ultimately returned to the community. Endnotes 1 Tsai, J., Flatley, B., Kasprow, W., Clark, S., and Finlay, A. (2017). Diversion of veterans within the criminal justice involvement in treatment courts: Participant characteristics and outcomes. Psychiatric Services , 68 (4), 375-383. 2 Beeler, A. (2007, February). When Johnny or Jane comes marching home and changes one uniform for another. Corrections Today , 69 (1), 60-63. 3 Hospital instead of jail: American Legion aims to secure liberty of many ex-service men now in prison. (1923, November 1). The Roland Record , p. 2. 4 Tsai, J., Flatley, B., Kasprow, W., Clark, S., and Finlay, A. (2017). Diversion of veterans within the criminal justice involvement in treatment courts: Participant characteristics and outcomes. Psychiatric Services , 68 (4), 375-383. 5 Schaffer, B. (2009, October/September). The jailed veteran and a challenging economy. American Jails , 41-48. 6 McCormick-Goodhart, M. (2013). Leaving no veteran behind: Policies and perspectives on combat trauma, veterans courts, and the rehabilitative approach to criminal behavior. Pennsylvania State Law Review , 72, 34-111. 7 Russell, R. (2009). Veterans treatment court: A proactive approach. New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement , 35 (2), 357-372. 8 Dvoskin, J. and Spiers, E. (2004). On the role of correctional officers in prison mental health. Psychiatric Quarterly , 75 (1), 41-59.

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