NCT01343472

Evaluation of the Washington Intensive Supervision Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pepperdine University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study entails an evaluation of the Washington Intensive Supervision Program (WISP). The purpose of the evaluation is to test whether subjects assigned to WISP perform better than those assigned to parole-as-usual (PAU).

Detailed description

This study entails an evaluation of the Washington Intensive Supervision Program (WISP). WISP is a program targeting high-risk parolees in Seattle, and is modeled after the HOPE program in Hawaii. The purpose of the evaluation is to test whether subjects assigned to WISP perform better than those assigned to parole-as-usual (PAU) on a number of outcomes, including drug use, missed appointments, recidivism, prison and jail stays, and parole revocations. WISP uses regular random drug testing and close community supervision, paired with swift and certain, but modest sanctions for every detected violation.

Conditions

• Behavior
• Drug Users

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	WISP supervision	WISP entails a warning session (Orientation Hearing) where the rules of parole are laid out and parolees are told that any violation of stated parole conditions will be sanctioned with a brief jail term (typically a few days in jail). WISP includes regular random drug testing.
BEHAVIORAL	Parole-as-usual	Parolees are supervised under standard parole supervision practice in Washington State.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-01-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2011-04-28
• Last updated: 2018-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States