Year One Report on Intermediate Outcomes Toolkit

September 2022

Stacy Calhoun and Susan Turner

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Division of Rehabilitative Programs
(DRP) has funded a wide variety of rehabilitative programs for inmates through Innovative Programming
Grants (IPGs) that can potentially help facilitate change and desistance from criminal offending. Art,
gardening, animal-assisted interventions, mindfulness, and trauma-based programs are just a handful of
the IPG-funded types of programs, the majority of which have yet to be formally evaluated. While
reductions in reoffending is often used as an indicator of program effectiveness, there is growing
recognition that desistance from crime is a long-term process that includes positive change in
intermediate outcomes (e.g., resiliency, impulsivity, interpersonal trust) that can help facilitate this
process. The University of California, Irvine (UCI) Center for Evidence-Based Corrections (CEBC), in
collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), developed and tested an
intermediate outcomes assessment toolkit for IPG programs. This is the first of two reports.

Intermediate Outcomes Final Report

May 2024

Susan Turner, Stacy Calhoun, and James Hess

In 2021, the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) entered into an agreement with the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to develop and test an instrument to measure intermediate outcomes for Innovative Programming Grants (IPG) within CDCR prisons. This is the final report for the project. Results focus on the selection of institutions for administration of the pilot test in CDCR institutions, and results from the baseline survey, the test-retest reliability sample and the pre-post sample.

The Effect of Correctional Career Training on Recidivism – An Evaluation of CALPIA: Comparison Among CALPIA Programs

October 2023

James Hess and Susan Turner, University of California, Irvine

Building upon the 2021 report titled The Effect of Prison Industry on Recidivism: An Evaluation of California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA), this study further analyzes the sample of individuals who participated in CALPIA programs by separating the CALPIA programs into thirteen different groups, placing similar programs together. Thus, this 2023 report is a comparison within CALPIA programs only. 

This UCI study has also been incorporated into a report published by CALPIA.

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.