Transcript therapeutic system for drug addicted prisoners in Poland

therapeutic system for drug
addicted prisoners in Poland
Andrzej Majcherczyk
Penitentiary Office
Central Board of Prison Service
[email protected]
Legal provisions
Polish Penal Code established three systems
of execution of imprisonment punishment:
• regular
• program’s impact
• therapeutic
Various types of therapeutic units
therapeutic units
psychic disfunction and mentally disabled
total number: 22
capacity: 1567
alcohol addicted
total number: 18
capacity: 590
drug addicted
total number: 12
capacity: 447
Distinctive features
of therapeutic unit
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Place
Special rules
Base for therapy
Therapeutic team
Programme
Base of the therapeutic system for
drug addicted prisoners
12 therapeutic units (capacity: from 24 do
50 places)
Total number of places within the system:
447
Total number of therapeutic staff: 57 fulltime positions
Needs for therapy
• 1022 convicted inmates were waiting for
therapy (24% increase in comparison with
the previous year)
• average period of awaiting therapy - 11
months (3 months longer than in the
previous year)
Placement of therapeutic units in the country
Lubliniec Prison
Characteristics of programme
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Drug-free
Cognitive-behavioural
Time limited (6 months)
Endorsed by General Director of Prison
Service
Criteria for acceptance
• Characteristic of the target
group of offenders
• Goals and objectives
• Model of change
• Methods
• Intensity, sequencing,
duration
• Scope of education
• Draft of an evaluation
• Characteristic of a base
• Staffing pattern
• Financial means necessary
to run the programme
Content of a programme
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Orientation to treatment
Cognitive skills
Interpersonal skills
Criminal lifestyles
Relapse
Wellness
Transition
Benefits for inmates
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Motivation
• Not to waste their time spent in prison
The scale of operations
• 800-1000 drug addicted inmates undergo
therapy every year
• about 80-85% of them finish the program
Challenges
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Insufficient number of places
The need to refine existing drug-free programmes
Lack of well-performed effectiveness studies
Continuation of the therapy
The need to extent the scope of offer (develop
programmes besides therapeutic units,
programmes of different kind, harm-reduction
programmes in every prison, etc.)
Andrzej Majcherczyk
Penitentiary Office
Central Board of Prison Service
[email protected]