| Program |
Description |
48-Week Offender Treatment
Program |
The 48-Week Offender program specifically targets antisocial attitudes,
values and beliefs (personal cognitive supports for crime.) This program
focuses on the specific dynamic risk factors of impulsivity, egocentrism,
weak problem-solving / self-regulation skills, aggressiveness and deficits
in critical reasoning and abstract thinking. |
Acute Psychiatric Unit /
Women's Mental Health Unit |
The Women's Mental Health Unit is an in-patient mental health treatment
unit that provides 24-hour hospital-level psychiatric care for acutely
and chronically mentally ill male offenders. Inmates are placed on these
units for stabilization, medication management, safety concerns and for
observation and evaluation of diagnostic clarification. The unit is a
highly structured therapeutic environment where patients are taught to
build upon successes and prepare for functioning in other settings. |
Subacute Psychiatric Unit /
Hope Wing |
Hope Wing is an in-patient mental health treatment unit that provides
structured, supportive environments for mentally ill female offenders.
Inmates are placed on this unit when they are transitioning from the
more regimented environment of the acute psychiatric unit (Women's
Mental Health Unit) or when they are not able to function well in
general population due to their illness. This subacute unit is a
structured therapeutic environment that encourages individual growth
and responsibility. |
Women's Residential Substance
Abuse Treatment (RSAT) |
RSAT is a state-approved intensive, gender-specific addictions
treatment program in the form of a therapeutic community separated
from the general inmate population. Approximately one third of its
participants have been diagnosed as having mental health disorders.
The program assists the graduates in making the transition to Alaska's
communities. |
