How Special is Bridgeview Manor?

+ Ohio's prisons hold almost 51,000 inmates and 10 percent are seriously mentally ill.

+ Bridgeview is the only residential home in Ohio that provides a place to live and on-site mental health treatment and case management

+ Most Ohio counties have one residential group home for the mentally ill that provides on-site services, but indigent clients aren't accepted. The few that accept them don't accept ex-felons.

+ In 2008, residential placement and housing services were requested for 2,684 Ohio prisoners set for release, and 751 -- 28 percent -- were for mentally ill offenders.

+ Of the total requests, 71 percent were successfully placed.