Projects
Current Projects
The Dash
Project Purpose:
Project Period: May 2024 - Present
Research Staff: Kevin Wright, Alexis Klemm, Tamara Rounds
Partners: CoreCivic; Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Project Support: CoreCivic
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Training
Project Purpose:
Project Period: February 2024 - Present
Research Staff: Kevin Wright, Kara Forrai, Alexis Klemm
Partners: Arizona ACEs Consortium; Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Project Support: ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
Past Projects
Adapting "The Open Table" Model for People Leaving Prison
Project Purpose:
Project Period: August 2023 - March 2025
Research Staff: Madeline Boersma, Marva Goodson, Alexis Klemm, Kevin Wright
Partners: The Open Table; Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry
Project Support: ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
Building Safer Communities
Project purpose: To examine the efficacy of Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) delivered through a smartphone application platform as compared to traditional in-person programming.
Project period: May 2022 – August 2024
Students: Margaret Wood, Jacob Young
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Project Support: Bureau of Justice Assistance
An Evaluation of Convergent Case Management (CCM)
Project purpose: To evaluate the perceived effectiveness of Convergent Case Management (CCM) for providing reentry assistance to incarcerated individuals.
Project Period: May 2023 – May 2024
Research staff: Ben Branaman, Alexis Klemm
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Women's Engagement through Communication, Action, Responsivity, and Education (WE CARE) Gender-Responsive Staff Training
Project purpose: To develop a comprehensive training program for correctional staff to better equip them with skills for engaging with and supporting the needs of incarcerated women.
Project period: June 2023 – August 2024
Research staff: Alexis Klemm
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Experiences on Community Supervision
Project purpose: To assess perceptions of community supervision and identify motivators towards successful completion of supervision requirements.
Project period: June 2023 – May 2024
Research staff: Monique Guevara, Alexis Klemm, Margaret Wood
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Perryville Appreciative Inquiry Participatory Action Research
Project purpose: To examine incarcerated women’s perceptions on how to enhance the correctional environment, as told to peers and university students
Project period: September 2021 – March 2022
Research staff: Genevieve McKenzie, Hannah White, Olivia Shaw, Caitlin Matekel, Kevin Wright, Jacob Young
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Reducing Community Supervision Absconding in Arizona
Project purpose:
Project period: February 2021 – December 2021
Research staff: Madison Sutton (Project Manager), Genevieve McKenzie, Alexis Klemm, Mukta Marathe
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Related Products
Reports
An Evaluation of Arizona’s Housing Pilot for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
Project purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of providing housing assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals upon their return to the community.
Project period: November 2018 – May 2022
Research staff: Raven Simonds
Partners: Arizona Department of Housing; Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR); Arizona Governor's Office
An Evaluation of Arizona’s Second Chance Centers
Project purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of Second Chance Center participation on recidivism.
Project period: November 2018 – May 2022
Research staff: Raven Simonds
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR); Arizona Criminal Justice Commission ; Arizona Governor's Office
An Evaluation of Arizona’s Community Reentry Coalitions
Project purpose: To examine the experiences of coalition members and their impact on the community.
Project period: September 2016 – September 2021
Research staff: Raven Simonds (Project Manager)
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry
Project support: Bureau of Justice Assistance
An Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing Training in Correctional Officers
Project purpose: To examine the outcomes of Motivational Interviewing training for correctional officers working within the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Project period: September 2016 – September 2021
Research staff: Raven Simonds (Project Manager)
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry
Project support: Bureau of Justice Assistance
Putting Second Chances to Work
Project purpose: To develop, implement, and evaluate entrepreneurial programming provided to incarcerated women preparing to reenter society.
Project period: May 2018 – April 2020
Research staff: Danielle Haverkate, Genevieve McKenzie, Madison Sutton, Shayla Evans
Partners: Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES); Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR); ASU Entrepreneurship + Innovation (E+I); ASU Public Service Academy; Televerde; Vivre Recovery Housing; RetailWorks AZ; Arizona Women's Education and Employment (AWEE)/A New Leaf
Project support: ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
An Evaluation of Moral Reconation Therapy for Security Threat Group Members
Project purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy provided to debriefed security threat group members in the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Project period: April 2017 – June 2019
Research staff: Raven Simonds (Project Manager)
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry
Project support: Arizona Criminal Justice Commission
Altering Administrative Segregation for Inmates and Staff
Project purpose: To assess the impact of living and working in restrictive housing on inmate and staff mental health.
Project period: January 2017 – June 2019
Research staff: Caitlin Matekel, Faith Gifford, Arynn Infante, Stephanie Morse, Jacob Young, John Hepburn
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Project support: National Institute of Justice
Related Products
Publications
Wright, K.A., Young, J.T.N., Matekel, C.G., Infante, A.A., Gifford, F., Meyers, T.J., & Morse, Stephanie J. (2023). Solitary Confinement and the Well-Being of People in Prison. Social Science & Medicine, 335, 116224.
Meyers, T. J., Fahmy, C., & Wright, K. A. (2022). Coping with incarceration: examining the longitudinal relationship between individual coping styles and mental health outcomes. Journal of Mental Health, 33(1), 14–21.
Infante, A.A., Morse, S.J., Fahmy, C., & Wright, K.A. (2023). Racial politics in the contemporary prison society: The importance of race and ethnicity in prison social organization. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 50, 600-623.
Young, J. T. N., Meyers, T. J., & Morse, S. J. (2023). What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison. Criminology, 61, 421–448.
Managing Violent Misconduct in a Maximum Security Prison
Project purpose: To examine the effectiveness of a Restrictive Status Housing Program (RSHP) designed for men who commit violent assaults within the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry.
Project period: August 2015 – June 2018
Research staff: Travis Meyers
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Related Products
Publications
Learning By Doing: The Arizona Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Project purpose: To implement and evaluate Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program classes.
Project period: March 2017 – November 2018
Research staff: Wesley Smith, Cassandra Philippon, Cody Telep
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Project support: ASU Women & Philanthropy
Hypermasculinity and Incarceration: Exploring Barriers to Rehabilitation
Project purpose: To examine the influence of masculinity expectations on incarcerated men's willingness to engage in correctional programming.
Project period: August 2016 – May 2017
Research staff: Stephanie Morse
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Reducing Recidivism in Arizona
Project purpose: To determine what works to reduce recidivism according to incarcerated individuals as told to incarcerated individuals.
Project period: January 2017 – August 2017
Research staff: Travis Meyers, Danielle Haverkate, Caitlin Matekel, Cody Telep
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR); Arizona Governor's Office
An Evaluation of a Restrictive Status Housing Program
Project purpose: To determine the effectiveness of an alternative form of restrictive status housing on the future behavioral outcomes of incarcerated men.
Project period: June 2015 – April 2016
Research staff: Travis Meyers, Arynn Infante
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Project support: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Treating the Seriously Mental Ill in Prison
Project purpose: To determine the effectiveness of a contingency management program for mentally ill incarcerated men.
Project period: June 2015 – April 2016
Project support: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
Research staff: Travis Meyers, Arynn Infante
Partners: Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)