NCJ Number
138193
Date Published
1992
Length
100 pages
Annotation
These highlights of the process evaluation of the Amity Righturn intensive therapeutic community inprison substance abuse program for male inmates identify program services, program staff, and indexes of success.
Abstract
Amity provided several services to inmates of the R. J. Donovan Correctional Facility over the November 1990 through September 1991 period: 57+ recruitment sessions that reached about 1,955 inmates, approximately 1,124 group counseling hours, 485 seminar hours, 37 workshops or 824 workshop hours, and 124 taping sessions. Amity employed 13 full-time and 8 part-time staff to provide its inprison and community services. In general, Amity realized its goals, but full enrollment could not be accomplished before March 1991. Exit forms indicate that 18 of 22 participants (82 percent) had satisfactorily completed the program. There have been no drug-positive urine tests out of approximately 400 random tests of program participants. 4 figures, 26 tables, 11 graphs, and 7 appendixes