The purpose of this document is to inform about the effects of prison drug treatment programs and who they affect most. The programs are designed for repeat offenders with extensive drug experience. Some of the questions the researchers asked included how well the programs work for inmates, who it affects, and whether different drugs affect the programs. As of 2002, there were 250 drug treatment programs in prisons in 40 states. By 2004, the number had risen to 290 treatment programs in 44 states. (Farebee et al. 1999) The main goal of the programs is to help prisoners not reoffend once released from prison. Drug treatment programs help different inmates by using different programs. Three main types of programs have been used in prisons to help inmates. Some prisons think community involvement will help inmates. They call this program Therapeutic Community (TC) Programs. This program and drug-free community-based outpatient programs are well-implemented programs associated with improved treatment outcomes (Ethridge & Hubbard, 2000; Pendergast, Podus, & Chang, 2000). TC focuses on program activities related to the community as an agent of change, some of these agents include but are not limited to informal interaction between inmates, staff and inmates and working in different jobs in the prison. Another program in prisons is cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT). This program allows staff to assess whether the inmate has inappropriate ways of thinking and behaving, a lack of self-understanding, an inability to think about the consequences of his actions, and the need to substitute new cognitions and behaviors (Melnick et al. al. , 2004). The largest and most well-known program is the 12-step program. The 12-step program... at the center of the document ......pharmacological treatments in prison, but the race of the inmates is taken into consideration. Male inmates of other races are more likely to seek treatment than white males because white males have larger personalities. Another factor is that males of other races are more likely to have a mental health disorder. Women of different races have the same outcome with white inmates. The inmates' summary statement simply shows what they thought of the treatments and how well they worked for them. The research is a large data set but had some limitations. This is not so recent data and some data may have changed since then. The searches could have separated the data based on the type of drugs inmates used and the program that worked for that particular drug. Drug treatment programs help different inmates by using different programs.