JUSTICE FOR ALL • Increase the number and available forms of outpatient treatment (including the opportunity for the person concerned to be free during the day for community activities and to visit the facility only to have dinner, sleep, take medication, etc.) to allow for a smooth transition into community living. • Develop new forms of services, specifically aimed to support the community living of persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities. • Consider therapeutic community approaches and open forensic psychiatry units for the implementation of security measures of compulsory psychiatric treatment and confinement in a medical institution. Recommendations on release and rehabilitation of persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities • Ensure the availability and accessibility of adequate evidence-based and tailored rehabilitation services for detainees with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities; services should involve a multidisciplinary approach. • Strengthen conditional release mechanisms to facilitate the rehabilitation and the reintegration of persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities into the community. • Strengthen post-release and post-discharge options and ensure availability of necessary aftercare services (including half-way houses, as well as services provided by social service providers, probation services, CSOs, etc.), providing support for the person with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities upon release. Ensure the involvement of the social net of the person concerned. • Ensure continuity of care through the sharing of treatment and other records with service providers in the community, on an as-needed basis and with the consent of the person concerned. 79

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