Notes: This table reports the ordinary least squares (OLS), two-stage least squares (2SLS), and the instrumental variables LASSO (IVLASSO) estimates of the impact of being assigned a moderate/severe mental health needs rating. The dependent variable is listed in each row. The recidivism within one year sample is truncated to one year prior to the last date our data set. Similarly, the recidivism within 18 months and two years samples are truncated to 18 months and two years prior to the last date. The 2SLS and IVLASSO specifications instrument for assignation of a high mental health needs score using a clinician leniency measure that is estimated using data from other cases assigned to a clinician as described in the text. We include month–year fixed effects and baseline controls for all specifications. The clinician and inmate robust two-way clustered standard errors are shown in parentheses. For the 2SLS estimates, confidence intervals based on the inversion of the Anderson–Rubin test are shown in brackets. ^*p < 0.10, ^**p < 0.05, ^***p < 0.01.