summarize the Lack of funding through Medicaid for the mentally ill individuals during recidivism

"Recidivism" is a term which means "the tendency of criminals to re-offend." That is, a high recidivism rate means that ex-offenders in a country have a high tendency to commit further offenses. As such, I think what you are asking for in this question is a summary of how provision for mentally ill ex-prisoners has been lacking under Medicaid, despite the fact that psychiatrists have determined that proper care for the mentally ill would cut recidivism rates.
In fact, in many cases, it has not been the fault of Medicaid itself that has resulted in the neglect of mentally ill ex-offenders, but the fact that proper care has not been taken to enroll them in the program. Under the Affordable Care Act, the vast majority of ex-offenders are eligible for coverage. However, while Medicaid is theoretically offered to prisoners in thirty-one states, there has been a chronic failure on the part of prisons to enroll inmates in the appropriate programs, meaning that many whose crimes were driven by mental illness in the first place are leaving prison without the insurance coverage to which they are entitled.
In states where Medicaid is not offered, the situation is even worse. Here, there is little attempt by any prisons to address the mental health of inmates, even when mental illnesses have been identified in the prisoners. A study by Gates, Artiga, and Rudowitz found that proper access to mental health care could cut recidivism rates by 16%, but formal structures are simply not in place to connect inmates returning to the outside world with the support they need.
Some issues that have been identified are that in order for prisoners to be able to use Medicaid, even where it has been set up for them, they need to either call or visit a welfare center upon their release. Prisoners are not offered assistance with this, and in many cases, their term in prison has made what would once have been easy day-to-day activities difficult. This is likely to be far more true in the case of prisoners who suffer from mental illness. It has been argued for decades that greater support for all prisoners upon exiting prison would cut recidivism rates significantly, even where mental illness is not involved.
Meanwhile, there is still an additional problem for many in states where bureaucracy and questions of categorization have kept newly-released offenders from the care they need. Prisoners on day release might be recognized as "in prison" by community care programs, who will not accept them, but as "released" by prison programs, who also will not take responsibility for them. Insurance is the least of their worries when the health care that is provided is improperly connected to the insurance offered.
The vagaries of insurance are difficult enough for the majority of Americans to deal with. When mentally ill prisoners, known to be mentally ill, are abandoned by the system, left to sort out their own health care without support while also dealing with untreated mental illness, it is little wonder that recidivism rates for these particular prisoners continue to be high.
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/12/health/inmate-insurance-medicaid/index.html

https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/health-coverage-and-care-for-the-adult-criminal-justice-involved-population/

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