The goal for this study was to conduct a process
evaluation of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT)
Program, called the Genesis program, at the Southern New Mexico
Correctional Facility (SNMCD) by examining the program's structure and
assessing its intermediate impact upon participating inmates. The
study focuses on answering three research questions: (1) Who were the
program participants? (2) What were the characteristics of the
program? (3) Was the program reaching the most appropriate offenders,
or were its participants primarily offenders who were not likely to
become recidivists?
The study contains information on every inmate who
entered the Genesis program from July 31, 1997, to July 31, 1998. For
evaluation purposes, the researchers designed their own data
collection form, which they used to collect revelant information from
each participant's treatment program file. Each participant's file was
maintained by Genesis program staff and was kept for the duration each
inmate was in the program. From each program participant at intake,
using the data collection instrument, the researchers collected
demographic information, substance abuse history, and criminal
history. The data are provided in two parts. Both parts are from the
same data collection instrument. Part 1 covers Questions 1 through 15
of the data collection instrument. Part 2 covers Questions 16 through
34 of the data collection instrument.
Not applicable.
Inmates who entered the Genesis program between July 31,
1997 and July 31, 1998.
Individuals.
records of the Genesis program at the Southern New
Mexico Correctional Facility
administrative records data
Part 1 includes demographic variables about the
inmate such as birth date, age, ethnicity, citizenship, years of
education, prior employment status, longest employment, and average
weekly income. It also includes incarceration information such as
confinement date, length of current sentence, RSAT admission date, and
expected parole date, and criminal history information such as age at
first adult arrest, number of juvenile arrests, number of adult
arrests, date of first adult arrest, date of last adult arrest, and
number of years served in prison. There are also variables to address
the inmate's drug use history as a juvenile and as an adult. Part 2
continues with the drug use history of the inmate as an adult with
information about drugs used by IV injection, number of alcohol
withdrawals, number of drug overdoses, number of detoxes, inpatient
treatment received, outpatient treatment received, average amount of
money spent on drugs, percentage of income spent on drugs, number of
family members who use alcohol or drugs, and how they were related to
the inmate. In addition, the file contains demographic information,
such as current marital status and number of children, and the
inmate's psychological history including depression, anxiety, anger,
trouble understanding, concentrating, or remembering, attempted
suicide, prescribed medication, and hospitalization. Criminal career
variables include length of criminal career, all past charges, weapons
used during any crime, number of times a weapon was used, and total
number of convictions.
Not applicable.
None.