Program Profile: Quehanna (PA) Motivational Boot Camp

This 6-month program aims to reduce recidivism by diverting eligible candidates from prison to a boot camp that promotes discipline, structure, and characteristics of good citizenship and seeks to improve skills for reentry into the community.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

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This 6-month program aims to reduce recidivism by diverting eligible candidates from prison to a boot camp that promotes discipline, structure, and characteristics of good citizenship and seeks to improve skills for reentry into the community. The program is rated Promising. Boot camp participants had statistically significantly lower rates of recidivism (measured as both rearrest and reincarceration) compared with nonparticipants at the 3-year follow-up.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s).

Date Modified: May 12, 2021

In 2017 the Quehanna Motivational Boot Camp program received a final program rating of No Effects, based on the review of Bucklen, Bell, and Hafer (2016). In April 2021, CrimeSolutions conducted a re-review of the same study, using the updated CrimeSolutions Program Scoring Instrument. The program received a new final rating of Promising.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 18 - 40

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Hispanic, Other

Geography: Rural

Setting (Delivery): Correctional

Program Type: Alcohol and Drug Therapy/Treatment, Alternatives to Incarceration/Prison, Vocational/Job Training

Targeted Population: Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Offenders, Prisoners

Current Program Status: Active