Is In-Prison Treatment Enough? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Prison-Based Treatment and Aftercare Services for Substance-Abusing Offenders |
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| Authors: | Kathryn E McCollister Michael T French Michael Prendergast Harry Wexler Stan Sacks Elizabeth Hall |
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| Institution: | University of Miami; , University of Miami;, Criminal Justice Research Group, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programme;, National Development and Research Institutes Inc.;, Centre for the Integration of Research &Practice |
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| 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. |
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