| Based on the early Amity prison therapeutic community (TC) positive
outcomes, the California Department of Corrections has implemented
approximately 9,000 beds devoted to TC substance abuse treatment, which are
spread over 35 programs in 19 prisons. The UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse
Programs is conducting 5-year process and outcome evaluations on 15 of these
programs at 10 prisons, totaling 3,300 beds for men and women at all custody
levels. Using client-level, treatment participation, and return to custody
(RTC) data, this paper will (1) present descriptive statistics relating to
client characteristics and treatment participation in both prison- and
community-based treatment (i.e., aftercare), (2) explore factors that may be
predictors of participation in aftercare following release from prison, (3)
examine RTC rates among parolees from prison-based TC programs who entered
aftercare compared with those who did not, and (4) explore other
client-level factors that may act predict RTC rates among parolees from
prison-based TC programs (e.g., mental illness, sex offender status,
substance abuse/dependence diagnosis).
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Updated 05/20/2006