Modified Therapeutic Community for Individuals With Mental Illness and Chemical Abuse (MICA) Disorders Who Commit Offenses

This is a program for the treatment of incarcerated individuals who abuse drugs. This is an adaptation of the therapeutic community model, more flexible and personalized while less intense, with the aim of reducing substance use and criminal recidivism.

Changing Course

This is a therapy program for incarcerated men. The intervention proposes the creation of a 24-page interactive journal, which includes visually appealing images, factual information, and individual writing exercises to engage the inmates.

Power Source

This is a group cognitive behavioral and mindfulness therapy program for 16 to 18-year-old male adolescents incarcerated in high-security institutions. The aim is to modulate psychophysiological reactions and reduce aggressive and impulsive behavior.
The program combines the behavioral change and problem-solving components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with the attention and reaction modification components of mindfulness to encourage prosocial behavior in stressful and risky situations.

Behavior Intervention at Cook County (IL) Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC)

This is a cognitive behavioral program for high-risk youth. The aim is to reduce both the likelihood and the number of readmissions to detention among young participants.
The intervention plan focuses on reducing automatic or reactive behaviors. It is delivered by trained officers through deep breathing, relaxation, and anger management techniques. The program is manualized and can also be taught by university students without a specialization in psychology or social work.

InnerChange Freedom Initiative (Minnesota)

This is a faith-based educational program to prepare incarcerated individuals for social reintegration. Participation is voluntary and includes three phases:
1) The first phase lasts 12 months and takes place in a specific gallery inside the prison unit. The foundations of “Internal Change”, cognitive and moral skills, responsibility for deviant acts, chemical dependency, and steps to avoid relapse are worked on;
2) The second phase lasts six months, with occupational and school activities and individual monitoring by tutors;

Postsecondary Correctional Education (New Mexico)

This program offers university education and vocational courses to individuals detained in the New Mexico prison system, with the aim of reducing criminal recidivism.
Higher education is provided through remote learning, while vocational courses require face-to-face participation. The program is carried out in all prisons to guarantee continuity of training, even if an inmate moves to another prison.

New Jersey Adult Diagnostic Treatment Center (ADTC)

This is a cognitive behavioral treatment and relapse prevention program for repeat and compulsive sex offenders. It focuses on reconstructing the offender’s cognitive distortions, recognizing patterns, and breaking the cycle of recidivism into sexual crimes.
The treatment has five sequential levels:
1) At the first level, patients receive orientation about the treatment in order to acquire the necessary skills to participate more fully in advanced psychotherapy;

Milwaukee Safe Streets Prisoner Release Initiative (PRI)

This is a reentry program that combines employment opportunities and support and assistance services for men up to the age of 35 who have been deprived of their liberty, both before and after leaving prison. The aim is to reduce recidivism by offering services that facilitate employment.
Participants must have a history of violence and/or gang involvement and be released with up to six months of community supervision. The program consists of drug abuse treatment, the development of social and emotional skills, interventions with dysfunctional families and gang involvement.