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Is it really surprising that some prison treatment programs are now run poorly?

By Douglas A. Berman

The question in the title of this post is inspired by this editorial in today's New York Times, which is headlined "New York?s Prisons Fall Short, Again" and goes like this: Perhaps as many as three-quarters of New York State?s 57,000 prison inmates need drug counseling or treatment to have a chance at productive, crime-free lives once they are released.  A three-year study of drug and alcohol abuse programs in the New York State Department of Corrections suggests that prisons are failing to provide adequate treatment programs for the tens of thousands of inmates who need them. The study by the Correctional Association of New York, a nonprofit group, examined drug treatment programs at 23 of the state?s nearly 68 facilities.  It found that the programs varied wildly in effectiveness and that most departed significantly from best practices laid out by the addiction research division of the federal Department of Health and Human Services...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).