Reentry Program Combines Therapeutic Community, Rehabilitation, Work Release and Parole by Jerry L Jennings in Peer Reviewed Journal of Forensic & Genetic Sciences (PRJFGS) in Lupinepublishers
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innovative re-entry program combined an in-prison therapeutic community, work
release, and employment and housing reentry with parole/aftercare support to
rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders with high levels of criminality and
substance abuse. Statistically significant outcomes from a ten year period for
198 offenders showed that only 23% of those who completed the full treatment
program and were released on parole were reincarcerated compared to 44% of
offenders with partial treatment without parole and 69% for those “rejected
from treatment” for program violations. The “partial treatment” group consisted
of inmates who were released on the earliest date marking completion of
sentence and before finishing the treatment program. Those “rejected from
treatment” were reincarcerated at twice the rate of those with full or partial
treatment (69% vs. 34%). Reduced reincarceration was significantly correlated
with longer lengths of treatment. Analysis of substance abuse types showed that
cocaine abusers (and heroin abusers to a lesser extent) had the poorest rates
of program completion and the highest and fastest rates of reincarceration
following discharge.
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