Evaluating New Mexico's Recidivism Reduction Program (RRP)

Evaluating New Mexico's Prison-Based Recidivism Reduction Program

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Recidivism Reduction Program; Behavioral: Business-as-usual

Detailed 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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 159
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New Mexico
    • Grants, New Mexico, United States, 87020
      • Western New Mexico Correctional Facility (WNMCF)
    • Los Lunas, New Mexico, United States, 87031
      • Central New Mexico Correctional Facility (CNMCF)
    • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 87504
      • Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM)
    • Springer, New Mexico, United States, 87747
      • Springer Correctional Facility (SCF)

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Recidivism Reduction Program; Inmates who were assigned to the RRP intervention.	Behavioral: Recidivism Reduction Program; Assigned to the 21-module Recidivism Reduction Program; Other Names: RRP; Mew Mexico RRP; New MExico Recidivism Reduction Program
Active Comparator: Business-as-usual; Business-as-usual are those inmates not assigned to RRP and who receive standard inmate programming.	Behavioral: Business-as-usual; Inmates who receive standard programming offered by New Mexico Department of Corrections prior to release.; Other Names: Control group

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Revocation rate	Percentage of subjects in each condition who are revoked from parole and returned to prison during the 12 months following their initial release.	12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Days incarcerated	Total number of days incarcerated in jail or prison after initial release.	12 months
New arrests	Number of new arrests in the 12 months following initial release.	12 months
Self esteem	Inmate score on self-reported self esteem scale at two-month followup (just prior to release from prison).	2 months
Drug use self efficacy	Inmate score on self reported drug use self efficacy scale at 2 months followup (just prior to release from prison).	2 months
Criminal thinking	Inmate score on self reported criminal thinking scale at two month followup (just prior to release from prison).	2 months
Depression	Inmates score on self reported depression scale at 2 month followup (just prior to release from prison).	2 months
Anxiety	Inmates score on self reported anxiety scale at 2 month followup (just prior to release from prison).	2 months
Hostility	Inmates score on self reported hostility scale at 2 month followup (just prior to release from prison).	2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Pepperdine University
• Collaborators: University of California, Los Angeles

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 1, 2011
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2012
• Study Completion (Actual): May 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 18, 2011
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 19, 2011
• First Posted (Estimate): May 20, 2011

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 10, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 6, 2018
• Last Verified: April 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Behavior; Drug users; Inmates
• Other Study ID Numbers: SPP0311F07

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No