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500-HOUR RDAP PROGRAM/PLACEMENT

What Types of Residential Programs Are There?

The federal prison system offered two types of residential programs. The first type, the moderate intensity programs, which included the majority of programs in this evaluation effort, offered 500 hours of treatment over a nine-month period and had a staff-to-inmate ratio of 1:24. The second type, the high intensity programs, was offered at three institutions. These programs provided 1,000 hours of treatment over a twelve-month period and had a staff-to-inmate ratio of 1:12.

Participation in both types of programs was voluntary. Incentives for participation varied over time and across programs. These ranged from small items such as caps and pens to increased halfway-house time, to, with the passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, up to a one-year reduction in sentence length for successful program completion among non-violent offenders.