Executive Summary: Residential TC Services (Modality 2)

Residential Therapeutic Community (TC) (Modality 2) is a nine (9) to twelve (12) month residential therapeutic community program divided into four phases. Inmates are housed together, separate from other inmates. Inmates spend at least 20 hours per week in programming in a positive environment wherein participants have similar problems of chemical abuse and criminal thinking. They live and work together to change their lives residing in the therapeutic community. Clinical staff are available to provide and supervise activities a minimum of six (6) days per week, for a minimum of sixty (60) structured program hours per week.

Profiles of Residential TC Services (Modality 2) Program Facilities

Facility	Provider	Number of Program Slots
Broward CI	Florida Department of Corrections	45
Gainesville CI	Civigenics, Inc.	68
Jefferson CI (Alternative)	Unlimited Path, Inc.	68
Reality House	ACT Corporation	85
Walton CI	Unlimited Path, Inc.	68
Zephyrhills CI	Florida Department of Corrections	135
Total		469

Workload

Table 3A: Residential TC Services (Modality 2) Program Enrollment Data, by Fiscal Year

• During the ten-year period of this report, 34,148 different inmates have been enrolled in Modality 2 programming.
• On June 30, 2006 there were only 448 inmates enrolled in Modality 2 programming.
• The significant decrease in the number of different inmates that enrolled in Modality 2 programming during FY 2002-03, from previous years reflects the full impact of reduced funding for institutional substance abuse programs that began during FY 2001-02.

Table 3B: FY 2005-06 Residential TC Services (Modality 2) Program Enrollment Data, by Facility

• In FY 2005-06, 1,258 different inmates participated in Modality 2 programming.
• In FY 2005-06, Zephyrhills CI had the greatest number (334) of different inmates enrolled in Modality 2 programming.

Outcomes

Table 3C(1): Residential TC Services (Modality 2) Program Outcomes by Fiscal Year, by Inmate (3-Year Follow-up)

• Based on a 3-year follow-up after initial program entry, for the 9-year period covered by this
  report, the 31,606 program exits included 13,951 (44.1%) that were successful; 9,665
  (30.6%) that were unsuccessful; and 7,990 (25.3%) that were administrative.
• The TOTAL SUCCESS RATE for the 9-year period covered by this report is 59.1%.
• The TOTAL SUCCESS RATE trend has shown an “up and down” tendency with a high in
  FY 2002-03 of 71.6% and a low in FY 1998-99 of 41.8%.
• Most of the exits for the 9-year period covered by this report (44.1%) were successful.

Table 3C(2): Residential TC Services (Modality 2) Program Outcomes by Fiscal Year, by Inmate (2-Year Follow-up)

• For FY 2003-04, the success rate was 69.4%.

Table 3D: FY 2005-06 Residential TC Services Modality 2 Exit Data (Event-Based), by Facility

• The overall success rate across facilities for FY 2005-06 was 65.7%.
• For FY 2005-06, most of the outcome events were successful (51.8%).
• For FY 2005-06, the Modality 2 program at Reality House had the highest success rate at 88.3%.

Recommitment Rates⁴

Table 3E: FY 2003-04 (2-Year Follow-up), Residential TC Services (Modality 2) Recommitment Data, by Level of Participation

• For a 2-year follow-up on Modality 2 participants released during FY 2003-04, program completers were less likely to be recommitted to prison or community supervision than program non-completers (33.8% vs. 39.1%).

Table 3F: FY 2002-03 (3-Year Follow-up), Residential TC Services (Modality 2) Recommitment Data, by Level of Participation

• For a 3-year follow-up on Modality 2 participants released during FY 2002-03, program completers were less likely to be recommitted to prison or community supervision than program non-completers (43.3% vs. 46.0%).

⁴Year released from prison. Program completion occurred sometime during the period of incarceration.