Originally broadcast on the television program Frontline on April 28, 2009.

Documentary.

Special features of this DVD: widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital ; scene selection.

Director of photography, Ben McCoy ; editor, Daisy Wright ; music, Justin Samaha.

Narrator, Will Lyman ; with Reggie Wilkinson, Michael Grissett, James Rodio, Debbie Nixon-Hughes, Scott Schnyders, Lynn Moore, Michael Unger, Jennifer Howison, Alan Howland, Ann McAllister.

Five years ago, FRONTLINE's groundbreaking film, The New Asylums, went deep inside the Ohio prison system as it struggled to provide care to thousands of mentally ill inmates. This year, FRONTLINE filmmakers Karen O'Connor and Miri Navasky return to Ohio to tell the next chapter in this disturbing story: what happens to mentally ill offenders when they leave prison. The Released is an intimate look at the lives of the seriously mentally ill as they struggle to remain free.

Examines what happens to the hundreds of thousands of mentally ill prisoners when they leave prison and why they return at such alarming rates. Includes the intimate stories of the released, interviews with parole officers, social workers, and psychiatrists.

Not rated.

DVD.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.