Dr. M Blatstein's Blog

Your Client Needs You: Psychotic Disorders, PTSD, Autistic, TBI, Epilepsy, there are BOP Placement Options Available.

Psychology Programs

Scoring PSF/Management Variables and Security Level Requirements for Participation

All Programs have Limited Availability: both in facilities, and inmates’ bed space

Terms

Axis I Disorders: Mental health and Substance abuse

Axis II Disorders: Personality and Developmental; targets inmates with severe personality disorders, typically Borderline Personality Disorder, who have a history of behavioral problems in the institution and who are amenable to treatment. P5330.11 

Some BOP Facilities have trained: Inmate patient care assistants (PCA-Page 3):

  • FCI Butner, NC-Medium: Providing ADL assistance where needed.
  • Trained Inmate Mental Health Companions to assist others with mental illness, working under psychology staff-
    1. USP Atlanta, GA-High (Secure MH Step Down Unit),
    2. USP Allenwood, PA-High (Secure),
    3. FCI Petersburg, VA
    4. USP Florence, CO-High
  • BOP Trained Inmate Mental Health Companions Observers for Suicide Watch on fellow inmates

Psychology Programs

1st: first-timer young male offender

  • < 32 years of age, or younger,
  • Who’s facing a sentence of 60 months or more?
  • In a medium-security facility
  • Receives $40 for successful completion of the 6-month program to help acclimate to life inside.

Brave Program– 2 Facility Locations: 

FCI Victorville, CA-Medium
FCI Beckley, WV-Medium

2nd: male in (or facing) a USP

    • 2 Tracks:
  1. Substance abuse/dependenceDelusion and/or a Substance-induced Psychotic Disorder
  2. Major mental illnesses as:
    • Psychotic Disorder that may include Mood, Anxiety, Schizophrenia,
    • Participants can be referred through staff assessment or self-referral

Challenge Program – 15 Facility Locations:

USP Allenwood, PA-High
USP Atwater, CA-High
USP Beaumont, TX-High
USP Big Sandy, KY-High
USP Canaan, PA-High
USP Coleman I, FL-High
USP Coleman II, FL-High
USP Hazelton, WV-High
USP Lee, VA-High
USP McCreary, KY-High
USP Pollock, LA-High
USP Terre Haute, IN-High
USP Tucson, AZ-High

3rd: male or female but who

  • does not require inpatient treatment.
  • has serious mental illnesses.
  • lacks the skills to function in a general population.

Mental Health Step Down Program– 3 Facility Locations:

FCI Butner, NC-Medium (MH Step Down Unit)
USP Atlanta, GA-High (Secure MH Step Down Unit),
USP Allenwood, PA-High (Secure)

*Male inmates with a primary diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder are referred to the STAGES Program

 4th: male or female

  • with a history of mental illness related to;
    • physical, mental, intimate domestic violence, or traumatic Psychotic Disorder?
  • The program is given during their first 12 months of incarceration.

Resolve Program– 15 (F), 2 (M) Facility Locations:

ADX Florence, CO-Maximum (M)
FPC Alderson, WV-Minimum (F)
FPC Bryan, TX-Minimum (F)
FCI Tallahassee, FL-Low (F)
FCI Dublin, CA-Low (F)
FCI Waseca, MN-Low (F)
FCI Danbury, CT-Low (M)
FCI Aliceville, AL-Low (F)
FMC Carswell, TX-Adm. (F)
FSL Danbury, CT-Low (F) (Activating)
SCP Lexington, KY-Minimum (F)
SCP Greenville, IL-Minimum (F)
SCP Coleman, FL-Minimum (F)
SCP Marianna, FL-Minimum (F)
SCP Victorville, CA-Minimum (F)
SCP Danbury, CT-Minimum (F)
SFF Hazelton, WV -Low (F)

5th: Male

  • With serious mental illnesses, and a
  • Primary diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, along with
  • Hx of unfavorable institutional adjustment linked to this disorder

Stages Program– 2 + 8 Facility Locations:

Secure Stages Program: (2017 National Program)

  • FCI Terre Haute, IN-Medium
  • USP Florence, CO-High (Effective 9/ 2014)

These may also be available here, therefore checking with the BOP is recommended:

  • FPC Bryan, TX – Minimum
  • FMC Carswell, TX – Med. Ctr
  • FCI Aliceville, AL – Low
  • FPC Coleman, FL – Minimum
  • FPC Marianna, FL – Minimum
  • FCI Tallahassee, FL – Low
  • FCI Dublin, CA – Low
  • FPC Victorville, CA – Minimum

6th: Females; with

  • Substance abuse – who may be RDAP eligible.
  • Mental illness,
  • And a history of domestic violence – with a PTSD diagnosis.
  • All care can be provided here without the need for a transfer.

The Female Integrated Treatment (FIT) Program – 1 Location:

  • FCI Danbury, CT-Low – The New (FIT) Program

7th: Those with significant

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder and ALL OF ITS PARTS,
  • Difficulty interpreting what others are thinking or feeling.
  • Difficulty regulating emotion.
  • Difficulty maintaining the natural give-and-take of a conversation.
  • The tendency to engage in repetitive or routine behaviors.
  • Strict consistency to daily routines; outbursts when changes occur.
  • Problems with: social stimuli and aversions to smells, tastes, textures, along with the inability to decipher unwritten rules.
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,
  • Epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or
  • Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
  • cognitive limitations: psychological – intellectual or neurological deficits,
  • This is a 12-18 month program, participants may elect to continue participation.

Skills Program– 2 Facility Locations:

  • FCI Coleman, FL-Medium; (Male & Female)
  • FCI Danbury, CT-Low (male)
  • Dental care (non-routine) is tough to find for people with autism, as they require general anesthesia.

—————————–DRUG Issues—————————-

8th: Drug Abuse Education resulted in:

  • Substance abuse that contributed to the offense,
  • Substance abuse resulted in a supervised release violation.
  • This is a 12-15 hour Educational Course / Not a drug treatment program.

9th: Nonresidential Drug Abuse Education Program

  • Upon completion may receive $30
  • For minor or low-level substance abuse impairment.
  • Benefit; the possibility of spending the maximum period in a halfway house (RRC)

10th: RDAP

  • To verify RDAP eligibility, in addition to drug and alcohol abuse, prescription medications along with other medications available over the counter are also included.

 

———————– Sex Offender Management Programs (SOMP) ———————————-

11th: Low to moderate sexual offender?

  • Single-sex crime; or first-time Internet Sex Offense?

SOMP Nonresidential (SOTP -NR) – SOTP-NR Program– 8 Facility Locations:

FCI Elkton, OH-Low
FCI Englewood, CO-Low
FCI Petersburg- Medium
FCI Marianna, FL-Medium
FCI Seagoville, TX-Low
FMC Carswell, TX-Med. Ctr. (Females)
FMC Devens, Massachusetts
USP Marion, IL-Medium
USP Tucson, AZ-High

12th: high-risk offender?

  • History of multiple sex crimes (re-offense sex offender),
  • Extensive non-sexual criminal histories, including;
  • rape, sodomy, incest,
  • transportation with coercion,
  • sexual exploitation of children,
  • unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, and/or
  • internet pornography?

SOMP Residential (SOTP -R) – SOTP-Residential Program– 2 Facility Locations:

  • USP Marion, IL-Medium/High
  • High FMC Devens, MA-Med. Center.

13th: Sexually Dangerous Persons

Certification & Civil Commitment

  • The Walsh Act,
    • one “who has engaged or attempted to engage in sexually violent conduct or
    • child molestation and
    • who is “sexually dangerous to others.”
  • a person is considered sexually dangerous to others if he;
    • suffers from a serious mental illness, abnormality, or
    • a disorder where he would have serious difficulty in refraining from sexually violent conduct or
    • child molestation once released.

SOMP Commitment and Treatment Program – Facility Location:

Physician Presentence Report Service, LLC