Residential Prison Treatment

Many drug offenders are often forced into the drug business because of economic reasons, resulting from the increased difficulty of finding jobs after prison, due to the felony that is attached to their name. Employers are often discouraged from hiring a person that has committed a felony, because of the uncertainty in their behavior. A study done by the Urban Institute, found that only 45% of all Americans that had been to prison, had a job within a year of being released. It was even lower for drug offenders, as only 25% of all drug offenders in the United States were able to find a job once released (McVay). It’s hard enough finding a well paying job because of the current state of the economy in the United States. Drug offenders often spend most of their life in prison, and once they are released, they have no knowledge or skills pertaining to the real world.

Explain a specific program within probation services. Why does this program serve to do? Also, why is it effective?

Mental illness can be self-induced via drugs that is ‘brought about by oneself’ (8) for example, Cocaine or crystal methamphetamine can cause hallucinogenic effects which can develop into severe mental health. However, there are many questions about self-induced drugs and how the criminals are sentenced, is it fair that they get sentenced more leniently than someone who did it whilst being aware of their crime as they are not under the influence of drugs? One can say that it is unjust for the criminal justice system to sympathise with drug abusers whilst they chose to make a conscious decision to take these drugs. On the other hand, the factors that lead to drug use include external sources that can mean they may lack some control in their

The current system that incarcerates people over and over is unsustainable and does not lower the crime rate nor encourage prisoner reformation. When non-violent, first time offenders are incarcerated alongside violent repeat offenders, their chance of recidivating can be drastically altered by their experience in prison. Alternative sentencing for non-violent drug offenders could alleviate this problem, but many current laws hinder many possible solutions. Recently lawmakers have made attempts to lower the recidivism rates in America, for example the Second Chance Act helps aid prisoners returning into society after incarceration. The act allows states to appropriate money to communities to help provide services such as education, drug treatment programs, mental health programs, job corps services, and others to aid in offenders returning to society after incarceration (Conyers, 2013). The Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison Program is another attempt to provide better treatment for people who are convicted. The study showed that drug offenders who underwent a treatment program outside of prison had a 26 percent less rate of re-arrest after two years than a control group that was sent to prison (Justice Policy Institute, 2010). Rehabilitative programs like the Second Chance Act and the Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison Program has shown to growth and positive

The plan is called HELP, which stands for Heroin ELimination and Prevention plan. Under the plan more funding would be put into treatment, recovery and education. The plan would also create support tools and advocacy programs, improve connection bewteen correctional systems and addiction services.

Those who graduated are then often compared to those clients who were terminated from the program. In addition, research as not examined if a client’s length in time in program affects that client even if he or she is unsuccessful in the program. In other words, there is not enough data to indicate the extent of specialty court’s impact on unsuccessful clients. In the medical profession, researchers need to track all patients who use a particular medicine even if the medicine did not work. This is necessary to identify the long-term lasting effects of medicine. Similarly, specialty court recidivism research needs to do the same. This prompted the authors to measure specialty court’s influence on clients who did not complete the program. This data is and should be required to determine specialty court’s efficacy. This approach to measure unsuccessful clients is essential and should not be discarded. The authors measured other factors besides recidivism, time to recidivism, and drug use. The authors also looked at unsuccessful clients’ abstinence from drugs, quality of life factors, employment, education, interpersonal relationships, and babies born drug free.

There are some negative aspects to the program that can make it challenging for offenders to complete. In a (personal communication, Dec 2016) an anonymous source, shared her personal struggles with the program. She mentioned that the most difficult part of the program for her, was dealing with the pre-trail services. Upon signing up for pre-trail services, she was assigned to a “testing group” and “call Instructions” that required her to call the testing hotline on a daily basis, 7 days a week including holidays. In addition, when her testing group was selected she had to report to the pre-trial office and urine test. At times this was difficult for her to do, because she either had no ride or was at work. Additionally, she lived out of town,

The ADC has different custody levels for prisoners. These levels include, Work Release, EIP (Electronic Incarceration Program), Work Force, minimum, medium, and maximum custody. Custody level is based on the prisoner’s chargers, criminal history, escape risk and their ability to get along with other prisoners. The ADC is a behavior-based facility; prisoners must follow all rules and regulations in order to secure better housing, reduction in custody, more privileges and more job opportunities

People who are in a residential drug treatment center will receive around-the-clock addiction treatment. They will receive care that is highly-individualized. Residential drug treatment is often referred to as inpatient drug treatment.

Drug treatment: an estimate of 1 out of 5 inmates are either doing time for using drugs or drug related case which made them enter prison in the first place. This program educates inmates about drugs and some sort of program treatment to help prevent them from coming

Office of Community Correction Centers (OCC) provides an alternative to probation through an intermediate intensive treatment program. This program is an enhancement to the traditional probation supervision. What this program does, it creates a more intensive correctional intervention. OCC has 18 network throughout the state that provides a thorough integrated services and sanctions such as substance abuse treatment, educational services, job development, life skills training and case management to participants. Participants had to report to treatment facilities several times for week for random drug testing, community services and programming. After completion of this intensive intermediate probation alternative, participant will then enter traditional probation supervision. (Massachusetts Court System, 2017). This has been helping the state save money, reducing the issue of prison overcrowding and have lowered the recidivism

All the addicts that don’t want to try and fix their ways will just take up the program’s time and money if they don’t invest in getting their own lives back on track. We are currently struggling to provide healthcare to the lower class of the country, who cannot afford it. So what gives us the audacity to give drug users that opportunity? I am not saying all drug users don’t want to be clean, but it would be difficult and more consuming to pick out those who want a way out of addiction. Both sides of the program, the people and the government, must cooperate together to have positive results. It is similar to welfare checks, how some states require drugs tests to make sure the people who are receiving financial government aid are actually using the money to bring themselves back into society.

In today’s society addiction is becoming an epidemic. There a millions of people who suffer from addiction to alcohol, opiates, meth, and many other things. This epidemic is causing so many people to lose their lives, or spend the rest of them in prison. Prison is not effective considering 95% of addicts will return to drug abuse after release (National Association of Drug Court Professionals, Drugs and Crime in America). Addiction is a mental illness and needs to be treated as such. One can’t just tell a paralyzed person to just walk again and believe they will be able to, the same concept applies with addiction. Addiction should be treated as a mental illness considering the genetic factors for addiction, the severe chemical changes in the

Another correctional program that can be replicated is the community support based program. In this program, the prisoner will be able to go outside the prison under supervision. The prisoner would have to return to the prison by a specific pre-set time. The inmate can get specialized counseling and treatment services and even life skill education

There are two kinds of different ways to participate in the rehabilitation centers. First is the drug abuser either motivated by his own experience, his family or the professional such as teachers, social workers or doctors. Another kind of drug abuser may being arrested by the police officers that they have to attend court, during the prosecution, they may be convicted and sentenced to Drug Addiction Treatment Centre of Correctional Services Department or the court calls for probation officer's report before making the sentence. It may result in getting a treatment opportunities for their own. In Wu Oi Christian Centre, the helpers will keep assessing the motivation of drug abusers which is continue or quit, they pointed that family support is crucial in drug addiction treatment. The processes of treatment is usually twelve months, within this period, centers would provide message with religious which is important for drug abusers. Religious propagation is a kind of mental support and hope for drug abusers which sustain them to carry on the whole process. Based on the views of the respective treatment or rehabilitation center and recommendation of probation officer, it would decided the drug addiction