Agencies and organizations, along with a few studies, focusing on serving people with mental illness in the legal system.

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health
  The Bazelon Center uses the legal system for reform to promote self-determination and preserve rights for people with disabilities. Originally called the Mental Health Law Projec,t in 1993 the name changed to honor Judge David L. Bazelon who sat on the United States Court of Appeals. Two of his decisions, one in 1996 (Rouse v. Cameron) and another the following year (Lake v. Cameron), changed the landscape of treatment for people with mental illnesses.
• Civic Research Institute
  The Civic Research Institute publishes magazines, reports and books about mental illness and judicial and correctional systems. Their web site lists items for sale, or by subscription that are mostly aimed for professionals or providers.
• Justice, Treatment, and Cost: An Evaluation of the Fiscal Impact of Allegheny County Mental Health Court
  A RAND Report of the fiscal impact of mental health courts in Alleghency County, Pennsylvania. The report includes information about finances, sample and methodology, with charts, graphs and a discussion of how they determined net savings and applicability to other locations.
• Corrections and Mental Health in Kansas and Florida
  This Consensus Project provides the results of Orange County, Florida, and Kansas, "jurisdictions where lessons learned about collaboration between the corrections and mental health systems could be of value to other communities." The studies as are separate and each is accessible from this link.
• Mental Disability Rights International
  The MDRI works to achieve human rights for people with mental disabilities through documenting conditions and working with other international human rights groups to make sure mental illness is part of their advocacy focus.
• The National GAINS Center
  A federally funded organization working with community-based service providers, the National GAINS Center's works focuses on issues encountered by mentally ill persons with a history of substance abuse and involvement with the justice system. In addition to training professionals and consulting, they have numerous publications about research in recovery programs and evidence based practices.
• Urban Justice Center
  A not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the community with legal services and advocacy around several issues including those of mental health, community development, and human rights.
• RIPPD (Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities)
  A grassroots organization in New York working to change abusive conditions in jails and prisons, including keeping people with mental illness in solitary lock-ups or denying them necessary and appropriate treatments.