NCJ Number
138628
Date Published
1992
Length
22 pages
Annotation
After a historical review of drug treatment programs provided by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP's), this paper describes new drug abuse treatment initiatives.
Abstract
The historical review outlines the chronology of BOP drug treatment programs for 1966-71, 1971-78, 1978-84, 1984- 86, 1986-88, 1988-89, and 1990. The current comprehensive drug abuse treatment strategy of the Federal BOP calls for the development of a layered, multitiered approach to programming. There is one level for the delivery of drug education services, three treatment levels, and one level of transitional services. Program levels consist of drug education programs, drug abuse counseling services (outpatient), comprehensive drug treatment programs (residential), pilot drug abuse treatment programs (residential/research), and transitional Services (Aftercare/community re-entry). The drug education program is mandatory for inmates with a substance abuse history who meet certain criteria. Centralized outpatient drug abuse counseling services will be available to volunteers at all institutions at any time during their incarceration; outpatients in a prison setting are inmates who participate in daily activities with other inmates and receive treatment services by appointment. Comprehensive residential drug treatment units will be developed throughout the BOP. Currently, five units have been approved with staffing and funding allocations. These five units were operational by January 1, 1991. By June 1990, three pilot drug abuse treatment units were partially operational at Federal correctional institutions in Butner, N.C.; Tallahassee, Fla.; and Lexington, Ky. They were fully functional by the end of 1990. Transitional services are provided after release from the prison environment to both comprehensive and pilot residential program participants who successfully complete the programs. 2 tables and 32 references