A Review of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) in United States Jails and Prisons

A Review of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) in United States Jails and Prisons

June 2023

Mardet Homans (University of California, Irvine), Denise Allen (California Correctional Health Care Services), and Yesenia Mazariegos (California Correctional Health Care Services)

The University of California, Irvine collaborated with California Correctional Health Care Services to compile a report that examines the delivery of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) to incarcerated persons in jails and prisons within the United States. The expansion of MAT in corrections is gaining national attention due to the dramatic increase in opioid overdoses and overdose deaths from synthetic opioids. Besides California, based on a review of publicly available information, only 14 states offer comprehensive MAT services at either intake and/or release in a considerable number of its jails and prisons. Overall, there is significant variability among states regarding the delivery of MAT to incarcerated persons. The goal of this report is to document evidence-based practices gathered from California and other correctional systems that can be used to guide expansion of MAT to justice-involved populations.

Process Evaluation for the Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment (ISUDT) Program

Process Evaluation for the ISUDT Program

May 2022

Susan Turner, Ioana Dinu, and James Hess, University of California, Irvine

Process evaluation report for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation/California Correctional Health Care Services on their Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment (ISUDT) Program.

The Effect of Prison Industry on Recidivism – An Evaluation of CALPIA

The Effect of Prison Industry on Recidivism – An Evaluation of CALPIA

November 2021

James Hess and Susan Turner, University of California, Irvine

Encountering Correctional Populations

By Kathleen A. Fox, Jodi Lane and Susan F. Turner

https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293571

While many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for those studying youth and adults on probation, on parole, and in jails and prisons.

The book addresses topics such as how to build rapport with offenders and those who monitor them; how to select from the many types of correctional data that can be collected; how to navigate the informed consent process and maintain research ethics; and how to manage the logistics of doing research. With personal stories, “what if” scenarios, case studies, and real-world tools like checklists and sample forms, the authors share methods of negotiating the complexities that researchers often face as they work with those behind bars.

Counties need to help parolees access health care

Lois Davis (RAND Corporation) and Susan Turner (University of California, Irvine)

San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 2016

California’s Public Safety Realignment Act (AB109), transferred the responsibility for many nonviolent offenders from the state prison system to county jail or local probation. Most efforts to understand the effects of this law have understandably focused on jails, courts and public safety. But at Rand we focused on another key challenge to inmates’ successful re-entry — the health of such returning offenders and their need for physical, mental health and drug treatment.

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