Evaluating New Mexico's Recidivism Reduction Program (RRP)

Pepperdine University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Recidivism Reduction Program; Behavioral: Business-as-usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01357291

SPP0311F07

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 159 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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159 participants in 2 patient groups

Recidivism Reduction Program

Experimental group

Description:

Inmates who were assigned to the RRP intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Recidivism Reduction Program

Business-as-usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Business-as-usual are those inmates not assigned to RRP and who receive standard inmate programming.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Business-as-usual