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Methodology

Study Purpose:
This study was a process evaluation of
Pennsylvania's two RSAT programs in their first year of
implementation. These programs were maintained through the joint
management of the state Department of Corrections (DOC), Board of
Probation and Parole, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and
Delinquency, and two private sector providers that operate the
programs. Pennsylvania's RSAT programs were unique in targeting
technical parole violators (TPVs). Opened in early 1998 in two
correctional facilities for men, each of these programs could serve up
to 60 male TPVs with a history of substance abuse. These programs were
also unique in their focus on cost-savings. Instead of the nine- to
36-month terms typical forparolees recommitted for violations, RSAT
participants served six months in prison-based intensive therapeutic
communities (TCs), followed by six months of aftercare in a
DOC-sponsored Community Corrections Center (CCC), similar to a halfway
house. This study focused on the prison-based component of the RSAT
programs. Men selected for RSAT from the state's western region were
transferred to the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at
Huntingdon. Men from eastern Pennsylvania were sent to
SCI-Graterford. Gateway Rehabilitation Services, a private drug
treatment provider, operated the program at Huntingdon, and
Civigenics, another private provider, operated the Graterford
program. Both programs took a cognitive-behavioral approach to drug
treatment. Their logic model presumed that RSAT participants would
learn to make socially responsible decisions and develop new responses
to social and environmental cues that previously led them to use drugs
and commit crimes. This study provided an interim assessment of the
implementation