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- Title
Is In-Prison Treatment Enough? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Prison-Based Treatment and Aftercare Services for Substance-Abusing Offenders.
- Authors
McCollister, Kathryn E.; French, Michael T.; Prendergast, Michael; Wexler, Harry; Sacks, Stan; Hall, Elizabeth
- Abstract
This study performed a cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of the Amity in-prison Therapeutic Community (TC) and Vista aftercare programs for criminal offenders in California. For the average treatment participant, the cost of treatment was $4,112, which led to approximately fifty-one fewer days incarcerated (36% less) than the average individual in the control group. This implies that, for the average offender, treatment reduced recidivism at a cost of $80 per incarceration day. For participants who received both in-prison treatment and aftercare services, an additional day of incarceration was avoided at a cost of $51 per day relative to those that received in-prison treatment only.
- Subjects
PRISONS; RECIDIVISM; IMPRISONMENT; CRIMINALS; PUNISHMENT
- Publication
Law & Policy, 2003, Vol 25, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0265-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9930.00140