Ineffective Psychiatric Prison Rehab Programs

found this article on the probably ineffectiveness of psychiatirc rehab programs in prison

Prison probably hasn't changed the killer or child molester who just left a cell block and moved onto your block. There's a 40 to 50 percent chance the ex-convict down the street will cause trouble again, experts say. The ex-cons agree.

Of course, the argument is made that they need more shrinks and more money for shrinks in Minnesota.

But even as seen in this earlier story, even just changing the television shows available in prison will have a dramatic result.

But this wouldn't cost all that much. And conditions are the same or worse in many states around the USA

If they want to spend more money, they might want to look at this experimental program being tried in Mexico. here's an interesting statistic:

The 400 inmates who have been registered in the program were the base for the statistic for this study. The objective of the study was measure the rehabilitation success and the reduction of the recidivism was valid.

When the results were analyzed it was found that the recidivism rate in the inmates who did the drug-free withdrawal and any of the other courses is very low (10.24%).

Normally, according to the State data, recidivism due to robbery is 70%. From the 192, who were released, 124 had been arrested because of robbery. At the normal 70% rate of recidivism we would expect 87 persons from the 124 would have returned to prison. Instead only 10 have returned to prison.

With this rehabilitation treatment, the recidivism rate for robbery has reduced from 70% to 8.06%

But notably, this is not a psychiatric program. Which will surpise some people thoroughly.