Table 2.
Access to Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Treatment Services in Correctional Facilitiesa
| Prisons(n = 98) |
Jails (n = 57) |
Community Corrections (n = 134) |
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| Service Type | Offer Services, %b | Access to Services, Median %c | Offer Services, %b | Access to Services, Median %c | Offer Services, %b | Access to Services, Median %c |
| Physical/mental health services | ||||||
| HIV testing | 89.1 | 68.7 | 73.4 | 22.0 | 42.0 | 12.1 |
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| HIV/AIDS counseling | 80.5 | 50.1 | 80.3 | 27.6 | 45.2 | 12.9 |
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| Hepatitis C testing | 98.2 | 79.6 | 74.1 | 23.3 | 39.0 | 11.5 |
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| Mental health assessment | 99.8 | 86.5 | 94.6 | 39.8 | 63.6 | 19.7 |
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| Mental health counseling | 96.3 | 58.9 | 94.5 | 31.1 | 63.9 | 18.6 |
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| Pharmacological treatment | ||||||
| Methadone | 8.9 | 31.0 | 54.5 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 31.0 |
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| Other medications for substance use disorder | 12.4 | NA | 36.8 | NA | 2.4 | NA |
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| Medication for mental illness | 80.3 | NA | 85.4 | NA | 7.8 | NA |
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| Substance abuse services | ||||||
| Detoxification | 12.2 | 31.0 | 26.0 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 31.0 |
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| Alcohol/drug education | 74.1 | 8.3 | 61.3 | 4.5 | 53.1 | 8.8 |
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| Outpatient counseling | ||||||
| ≤4 h/wk | 54.6 | 3.4 | 59.8 | 7.4 | 47.1 | 10.0 |
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| ≥5 h/wk | 47.1 | 2.7 | 22.5 | 10.8 | 21.6 | 8.8 |
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| Therapeutic community | 26.9 | 6.6 | 26.3 | 3.0 | 5.7 | 11.1 |
Abbreviations: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; NA, not applicable.
a
Data provided from analyses of the National Criminal Justice Treatment Practices Survey of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (F.S. Taxman, PhD, and M. Perdoni, MS, George Mason University, written communication, November 2008).42
b
Percentage of facilities that indicated that the service or treatment was available.
c
Median percentage of facility’s average daily population who were provided the service or treatment.