The NARA therapeutic community at the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Connecticut, utilizes up to fifteen hours of group procedures weekly, as well as a reward system and an inmate status system. Fifty NARA therapeutic community residents were administered the Yalom 60-item Q-Sort of characteristics of successful therapy patients. Insight-related items were most highly ranked, followed by existential and catharsis factors, respectively. These results were compared to those of Yalom, highest-ranked items were examined, and the implications for understanding therapeutic communities were discussed.
This project assessed the impact of increasing inmate age heterogeneity on violent and assaultive behavior at two Federal Correctional Institutions. The project spanned a period of two and one-half years. The results indicated that the strategy may be viable for establishing and maintaining a relatively nonviolent institutional environment.
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