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The prevalence of mental disorders is growing among people who are incarcerated in British Columbia (BC), Canada, increasing the urgency of timely and accessible mental health services after release.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Objective<\/jats:title>To examine the association of mental health services access and timeliness of services access with reincarceration risk among people released from prison.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>In this cohort study, mental disorder diagnoses were derived from International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision<\/jats:italic> or International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision<\/jats:italic> codes in administrative health records. Data on prison release and reincarceration were retrieved from corrections records. Population-based health and corrections data were retrieved from the BC Provincial Overdose Cohort, which contains a 20% general population random sample of 1\u202f089\u202f677 BC residents. This study examined releases from provincial prisons between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2018, among people in the 20% random sample who had a mental disorder diagnosis in the year before their release. Analyses were performed from January to June 2022.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposures<\/jats:title>Mental health services access (primary care, emergency department visits, or hospitalization) and sociodemographic, health, and incarceration characteristics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>A multistate modeling approach was taken. Cox proportional hazards models were stratified by transition, from release to reincarceration, with and without mental health services access. A state arrival extended model examined the influence of timeliness of mental health services access on subsequent hazard of reincarceration.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>A total of 4171 releases among 1664 people (3565 releases among male individuals [84.6%]; 2948 releases [70.7%]\u2009among people &amp;lt;40 years old; 2939 releases [70.5%] among people with concurrent substance use disorder diagnosis) were identified. The total study follow-up time was 2834.53 person-years, with a mean (SD) of 0.68 (0.93) years and median (IQR) of 0.25 (0.07-0.84) years per release. Mental health services access was associated with a reduction in the hazard of reincarceration (hazard ratio, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.39-0.94). For each additional month between release and mental health services access, the hazard of reincarceration was increased by 4% (hazard ratio, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.01-1.07).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this cohort study of people with mental disorder diagnoses released from prison in BC, mental health services access was associated with reduced reincarceration risk. 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