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>CCA Offers Effective Programs to Help Offenders Overcome
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>CCA Offers Effective Programs to Help Offenders Overcome Addictions
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>NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2005--Twenty years ago, prison
>psychologist Dr. Don Murray and offender and drug addict Ray Choate were
>on opposite sides of the fence when they met at a federal prison in
>Seagoville, Texas.
>
>A few months ago, the two men were reunited. Murray had just been hired by
>Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest corrections
>management company, as Director of Addictions Treatment and Behavioral
>Programs and was touring CCA prisons and jails across the country to meet
>with program managers. At CCA's owned and operated Cimarron Correctional
>Facility in Cushing, Oklahoma, Murray ran into Choate. Choate was not an
>offender at Cimarron--rather, he was overseeing the facility's addictions
>treatment program.
>
>Today, the two men are working side by side to develop and implement
>addictions treatment and behavioral programs to help offenders overcome
>their addictions and lead productive lives.
>
>Three major residential programs CCA offers to the federal, state and
>local offenders in its care include: Residential Drug Abuse Program
>(RDAP), Strategies for Change, and Lifeline. Each is voluntary, and
>offenders choose to enter a "community" within their correctional facility
>where everyone shares a common goal of breaking their addictions. The
>offenders eat, sleep and participate in therapy and curriculum together.
>These therapeutic communities are currently being offered at nearly
>one-third of CCA's more than 60 facilities. There are currently more than
>2,500 offenders on any given day at CCA facilities nationwide who are
>participating in these CCA intensive, residential addictions treatment and
>behavioral programs, and that number is growing every day. These numbers
>are in addition to the thousands of other individuals under CCA management
>who are participating in CCA's group treatment programs for substance
>abuse at other CCA facilities but who may not require t he same intensive
>level of substance abuse treatment.
>
>"CCA places an intensive focus on research- and evidence-based therapeutic
>programs that are proven to work," said Murray. "About 70 to 80 percent of
>our offenders have a history of substance abuse or dependence, many with
>co-existing psychological disorders. Once they've completed their initial
>detoxification and are no longer physically addicted, it's imperative that
>we work with them to change their thinking patterns so that they are no
>longer psychologically addicted."
>
>"Many of the individuals we treat come from unstable, unhealthy and
>abusive family environments. In an effort to escape the emotional pain and
>stress they are experiencing, they often turn to drugs or alcohol," Murray
>added. "Some move quickly into a 'downward spiral' where nothing else
>matters in their lives -- not their jobs, their families, their spouses,
>their children -- not even the law. Once addicted offenders end up in one
>of our facilities, it is our responsibility to help them find new ways to
>cope with problems and prepare for a new life in the community which does
>not include drugs or alcohol."
>
>Choate is using lessons he learned from his past to help the 118 inmates
>enrolled in Cimarron's Lifeline program, an intensive six to 12 month
>therapeutic community which helps inmates develop moral responsibility and
>positive, lasting relationships.
>
>"I tell the men in my program, I know the fear. I know the anger," said
>Choate. "I've been where you are, and I'm not going back down that road.
>I'm offering my hand to bring you up."
>
>This year, CCA will be implementing RDAP, an award-winning drug treatment
>initiative that has an established track record in achieving favorable
>outcomes with drug-involved offenders. The success of this program is
>exemplified by a 16 to 18 percent reduction in recidivism even for
>offenders who have been released from prison for three years. The program
>is typically nine months long and includes 500 hours of highly structured
>cognitive-behavioral curriculum aimed at helping individuals change their
>thinking patterns.
>
>For more information on an addictions treatment and behavioral program or
>to tour a CCA facility, call Dr. Don Murray at (800) 624-2931, ext. 3112.
>
>CCA is the nation's largest owner and operator of privatized correctional
>and detention facilities and one of the largest prison operators in the
>United States, behind only the federal government and four states. The
>company operates more than 60 facilities, including 39 company-owned
>facilities, with a total design capacity of approximately 70,000 beds in
>19 states and the District of Columbia.
>
>Contacts:Corrections Corporation of AmericaLouise Chickering,
>615-263-3106orMcNeely Pigott & FoxLaura Lee, 615-259-4000
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