1. The assessment should be assigned to a specific mental health staff member and consist of interviews, a review of prior records and clinical history, a physical examination, observation, and, when necessary, psychological testing.
2. A therapeutic community is an environment that provides necessary behavior modifiers that allow offenders immediate feedback about their behavior and treatment progress.
3. The cost of incarcerating an inmate who is 60 years of age or older is around $100,000 a year.
4. When an offender has two or more disorders, he or she is said within the treatment community to have co-occurring disorders.
5. At year-end 2015, roughly 17,150 inmates in state and federal prisons throughout the United States were HIV-positive.