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and a relapse prevention program). In other cases, an inmate may have multiple admissions
because he was unsuccesshlly terminated one or more times ftom the same program and
readmitted one or more times.
We were able to account for each treatment outcome separately, and we were able to
account for an inmate’s total treatment exposure based on the length of time he spent in each
program (number of weeks) multiplied by the program’s intensity (number of hours per week).
The inmate’s first admission determines his primary treatment status in this study, that is, his
assignment to the treatment (TC) or comparison (Education or Outpatient) group.14
Table 2
Admissions to AOD Proprams at Five Prisons, Jan. 1 - Nov. 30,2000
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Number of Admissions to Education Outpatient TC Alumni Total
AOD Programs
First admission 1131 898 742 120 2891
Second admission 322 619 90 42 1073
Third admission 90 261 26 8 385
Fourth admission 37 90 8 0 135
Fifth admission 12 19 3 0 34
Sixth admission 4 7 0 0 11
Total Admissions 1596 1894 869 170 4529
Because the same inmate may have been admitted into more than one program (e.g.,
education, outpatient, TC, and alumni) during the study period, the actual number of inmates is
less than the total number of admissions. We break down the sample into the total number of
inmates admitted into AOD programs by institution and program type (Table 3). A total of 2,891
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l4 If an inmate was admitted to a TC program on a second or subsequent program admission, he
was assigned to the TC group. Like other inmates in the sample, these inmates received credit for
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