The purpose of this article is to inform about the effects of prison drug treatment programs and who they affect most. The programs are intended for repeat offenders with extensive drug records. Some of the questions the researchers asked were how well the programs work for inmates, who runs them, and do different medications affect the programs. In 2002, there were 250 prison drug treatment programs in 40 states. In 2004, that number rose to 290 treatment programs in 44 states. (Farebee et al. 1999) The main goal of the programs is to help inmates so that they do not reoffend once they are released from prison. Drug treatment programs help different inmates using different programs. In prisons, they used three main types of programs to help inmates. Some prisons believe that community involvement will help inmates. They call this program Therapeutic Community (TC) Programs. This program and drug-free outpatient community programs are well-implemented programs that are associated with improved treatment outcomes (Ethridge & Hubbard, 2000; Pendergast, Podus, & Chang, 2000). TC focuses on community-related program activities as an agent of change, some of these agents include, but are not limited to, informal interaction between inmates, staff and inmates, and work in different jobs at the prison. Another program in prison is cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT). This program allows staff to determine if the inmate has inappropriate ways of thinking and behaving, a lack of self-understanding, an inability to think through the consequences of his actions, and the need to substitute new cognitions and behaviors. (Melnick et al., 2004). The largest and most well-known program is the 12-step program. The 12-step program...... middle of paper ...... drug treatments in prison, but inmate race comes into consideration. Male inmates of other races are more likely to receive treatment than white men because white men have larger personalities. Another factor is that men of other races are more likely to have a greater risk of suffering from a mental health disorder. Women of different races have the same outcome as white inmates. The inmates' summary statement simply shows what they thought of the treatments and how well they worked for them. The research constitutes a large body of data, but it has some limitations. This is data that was not as recent and some of it may have changed since then. The research could have separated the data by the type of drug inmates used and which program worked for that particular drug. Drug treatment programs help different inmates using different programs.