Behavior
Conditions
Keywords
Behavior, Drug users, Inmates
Brief summary
A a multi-site trial to measure the efficacy of the Recidivism Reduction Program, a prison based, twenty-one module reentry program operated by the New Mexico Department of Corrections.
Detailed description
The New Mexico Department of Corrections Recidivism Reduction Program (RRP) is designed to provide offenders with knowledge and skills that are transferable to the community setting and to address issues that offenders will invariably face upon release to the community. Transitional coping skills, offender expectations upon release, family issues, and dealing with authority figures are a few of the challenges facing offenders upon reintegration. The Recidivism Reduction Program is aimed at preparing offenders for the potential obstacles that they may encounter upon release to the community and providing them skills to overcome the challenges that they will face. The RRP curriculum focuses on belief systems, self-esteem, and rational thinking. The RRP is a twenty-one module clinician-led program (approximately 100 hours) delivered in a group setting within months of release. Outcomes focus on measures of transition readiness, successful transition into the community, and recidivism.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALRecidivism Reduction Program
Assigned to the 21-module Recidivism Reduction Program
BEHAVIORALBusiness-as-usual
Inmates who receive standard programming offered by New Mexico Department of Corrections prior to release.
Sponsors
University of California, Los Angeles
Pepperdine University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
MALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Inmates who have six months prior to release * Inmates housed at one of the four experimental prisons * Inmates willing to participate in the Recidivism Reduction Program
Exclusion criteria
\- Housed in security Level 4 or 5
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Revocation rate | 12 months | Percentage of subjects in each condition who are revoked from parole and returned to prison during the 12 months following their initial release. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| New arrests | 12 months | Number of new arrests in the 12 months following initial release. |
| Self esteem | 2 months | Inmate score on self-reported self esteem scale at two-month followup (just prior to release from prison). |
| Drug use self efficacy | 2 months | Inmate score on self reported drug use self efficacy scale at 2 months followup (just prior to release from prison). |
| Days incarcerated | 12 months | Total number of days incarcerated in jail or prison after initial release. |
| Depression | 2 months | Inmates score on self reported depression scale at 2 month followup (just prior to release from prison). |
| Anxiety | 2 months | Inmates score on self reported anxiety scale at 2 month followup (just prior to release from prison). |
| Hostility | 2 months | Inmates score on self reported hostility scale at 2 month followup (just prior to release from prison). |
| Criminal thinking | 2 months | Inmate score on self reported criminal thinking scale at two month followup (just prior to release from prison). |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed