{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "The State of Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) and the\r\nOffice of Substance Abuse (OSA) at the Maine Department of Mental\r\nHealth, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services opened the Key\r\nMaine Therapeutic Community (TC) in March 1999, and its Transitional\r\nTreatment Program (TTP) for adult male inmates in January\r\n2000. Spectrum Behavioral Services, Inc. (SBC) was subcontracted to\r\nimplement the program, which was located at the Maine Correctional\r\nFacility in South Windham and the Pre-Release Center in Hallowell. The\r\nUnited States Department of Justice Residential Substance Abuse\r\nTreatment (RSAT) funded the initiative. This study was undertaken as a\r\nprocess evaluation of the program. To accomplish the aims of the\r\nprocess evaluation, research staff examined both program and\r\nclient-level data that were collected throughout the first 15 months\r\nof the Key Maine TC's operation, a period that included the initial\r\nstart-up period for the TTP. Part 1, Baseline Data, contains\r\ninformation on inmates, including age, ethnic group, education level,\r\ntiming of all diplomas or degrees they had received, reasons for\r\nstopping school, marital and/or relationship status and history, and\r\nnumber and ages of children. The file also includes information on the\r\nlast six months before being incarcerated, such as attendance at\r\nreligious services, kind of housing and time spent there, as well as\r\nwhom they lived with and the behavior of the inmate and their living\r\ncompanions in terms of alcohol and drug use. Also, there is\r\ninformation about how respondents supported themselves financially,\r\nincluding employment status and job information, such as number of\r\ndays worked, number of jobs, part-time or full-time status, income,\r\nsupplemental income, drug and alcohol use effects on employment, and\r\nwhether they had dependants to support. In addition to information on\r\nthe six months before incarceration, the file provides information on\r\nthe inmate's substance abuse behaviors over his lifetime, including\r\nspecific drugs used, the frequency used, and the age at which use of\r\nparticular substances began. Information on substance abuse behaviors,\r\nsuch as specific substances used and frequency used in the last 30\r\ndays, is also recorded. Other variables in Part 1 focus on whether\r\ninmates' substance abuse had caused problems in major areas of their\r\nlives, such as family, employment, school, physical and mental health,\r\nrelationships, and other substance abuse treatment received, including\r\nthe type of treatment, duration of treatment, main substance abused,\r\nand reasons for entering treatment. Self-report data are available on\r\neach inmate's lifetime history of illegal activities, including, but\r\nnot limited to, arrest history. This includes the offense(s) for which\r\nthe inmate was currently serving time, as well as past offenses, jail\r\ntime served, number of times incarcerated, illegal activities in which\r\nthe inmate engaged during the last six months before incarceration,\r\nand time spent in probation during the last six months before\r\nincarceration. Information on visitors received during time in jail\r\nand contact (phone calls and letters) with others while in jail are\r\nincluded, as well as personal history information concerning the\r\ninmate's relationship with family and the activities they engaged in\r\ntogether. There is information on the friends the inmate had during\r\nthe six months before incarceration, such as their education level,\r\nemployment status, and relationship with family. Additional variables\r\ninclude whether the inmate reported having a history of child abuse,\r\nwith details such as age at time of abuse, relationship with the\r\nabuser, frequency of abuse, perceived association of child abuse\r\nhistory to the inmate's substance abuse, the inmate's history as both\r\nvictim of and perpetrator of violent crimes and weapon use, the\r\ninmate's sexual activity during the six months before incarceration,\r\nand his opinions about the chances of contracting HIV/AIDS. Other\r\nitems pertain to behaviors that increase the risk of contracting\r\nHIV/AIDS and the inmates' feelings about HIV/AIDS, such as whether\r\nthey worried about contracting the virus, whether they would want to\r\nknow if they had the virus, whether they knew how to protect\r\nthemselves, whether they had altered their behavior to reduce their\r\nchances of infection, and their perceptions regarding the likelihood\r\nof contracting HIV/AIDS. Part 1 data also provide information on\r\ninmates' physical and mental health, along with medications taken and\r\ndiagnosed mental disorders. Interviewers' ratings concerning the\r\ninmates' behavior during the interview and whether the interviewer\r\nbelieved the inmates would complete the program are assessed across 16\r\nareas. Part 2, Retention Data, indicates how long inmates spent in the\r\nprogram and the reason for their discharge. Part 3, Score Data,\r\nprovides the inmates' psychological and motivational scores for the\r\nshort self-esteem index, the short depression index, motivation and\r\nreadiness and treatment engagement, and when they were tested. Also\r\nincluded are scores for counselor rapport and counselor\r\ncompetence. Part 4, Services Data, records the number of times an\r\ninmate had used particular services, such as clinical groups, clinical\r\nsupervision, educational sessions, encounter groups, group counseling\r\nsessions, individual counseling sessions, seminars, and 12-step\r\nsessions.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03281.v1", "title": "Process Evaluation of Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in Maine, 1999-2000"}], "identifier": "3648", "issued": "2003-01-10T00:00:00", "keyword": ["drug dependence", "drug treatment", "drug use", "inmate attitudes", "inmate populations", "inmate programs", "program evaluation", "substance abuse treatment"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-03-30T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "title": "Process Evaluation of Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in Maine, 1999-2000"}