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For each of the three dependent variables, employment status significantly predicted
treatment outcomes. Full time employment had a robust and significant impact on reducing
reincarceration, rearrest, and drug relapse rates.
For rearrest and drug relapse rates, none of the other findings reported previously were
substantively altered. Age and length of time at risk since release fiom prison continued to
signlficantly predict treatment outcomes. As before, institutional effects were observed only for
drug relapse, but not for the other two outcome variables.
An interesting finding emerged during analyses of reincarceration, however. The
interaction between Comparison group and Employment Status strongly predicted
reincarceration, while the main effect of TC v. Comparison group became non-significant. Inmates
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in the Comparison group who were not employed full-time upon release fiom prison were highly
likely to recidivate-9.6 times as likely as other inmates in the sample. The positive effects of inprison
TC treatment, therefore, appear contingent upon favorable post-release conditions such as
full time employment.
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