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Report: TYC substance abuse treatment increased recidivism

Though the agency has recently changed (and supposedly upgraded) most of its treatment programming, I was interested to see this new, legislatively mandated report on recidivism rates (pdf) associated with various types of pre-reform treatment programs for youth exiting the Texas Youth Commission.Bottom line: TYC's sex offender and violent offender treatment programs appear to have quite positive recidivism results, while the agency's now-replaced chemical dependency treatment was a flat-out failure, actually increasing recidivism compared to youth assessed as having chemical dependency who received no treatment.N.b., recidivism data in the report only include those youth released from TYC through June 2008, since at least one year out of custody was required to assess a one-year recidivism rate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).