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Program Profile: Denver (Colorado) Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative (Denver SIB) |
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Corrections, Jails, Correctional facilities | This is a program for homeless individuals who are often in jail, to increase their housing stability and reduce their criminal justice involvement. The program is rated Effective. Individuals in the treatment group had statistically significant reductions in arrest, jail stays, days in jail, and shelter stays and visits, and statistically significant increases in mental health services, compared with the control group, but there was no statistically significant effect on substance use services. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Minnesota Intensive Supervised Release |
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Sex offenders, Drug testing, Probation, Mental health, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Crime prevention | This is an intensive, supervised release program for individuals released from prison in Minnesota who are at high risk for reoffending. The primary goal of the program is to reduce recidivism of released individuals. The program is rated Promising. The program reduced the risk of general, felony, and violent reconvictions and any rearrests, but increased the risk of a technical violation revocation. All of these differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Oklahoma's Juvenile Second Chance Act Reentry Program (Tulsa, OK) |
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Reentry, Case Management, Corrections, Juvenile recidivism prediction, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile justice, Juvenile detention | This is a juvenile reentry program that offers services to youth returning to the community in Tulsa, Okla., after their out-of-home placements. The goal of the program is to reduce rates of recidivism for high-risk youth. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in reconviction rates for treatment group youth who received the program’s services, compared with comparison group youth who did not receive services. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: The Impact of California’s Proposition 47 (The Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative) on Recidivism |
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Mental health, Sentencing guidelines, Drug possession, Prisons, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Drugs, Drug abuse prevention and education, Crime prevention | This is a policy reform passed by California voters to downgrade drug and property offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, to focus prison resources on the most-serious violent offenses, reinvest savings toward prevention, and reduce recidivism. The program is rated Promising. In an evaluation of recidivism, the intervention group had statistically significantly fewer rearrests and reconvictions for any crime or revocation, compared with the control group, at the 1-year follow-up. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: The Bronx Defenders Holistic Defense Model (New York) |
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Defendants, Indigent defense, Defense, Jails, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Sentencing, Courts | This is a program that uses an interdisciplinary team to address factors contributing to clients’ contact with the court. The program is rated Promising. Participants experienced a reduction in average sentence length and were more likely to be released on recognizance, compared with those who received traditional legal services. These differences were statistically significant. However, there was no statistically significant impact on conviction or on future arrest rates. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Prison Visitation (Minnesota) |
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Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention | Prison visitation allows individuals housed in Minnesota facilities to be visited by family, friends, and other approved persons. The program is rated Promising. Individuals visited at least once during their confinement had statistically significant lower risks of reconvictions and technical violation revocations compared with those who were never visited. Those who were visited specifically by community volunteers also had statistically significantly lower risks of recidivism compared with the Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Delaware KEY Substance Abuse Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Mental health, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Drugs, Rape and sexual assault | This program is a prison-based therapeutic community for drug-involved individuals. The program is rated Promising. After 3 years, results showed statistically significant increases in remaining drug-free; however, there were no statistically significant effects in being arrest-free. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Delaware CREST Outreach Centers |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Reentry, Drugs | This is a residential work-release program that uses therapy, counseling and treatment for persons convicted of a crime with a history of substance use who are reentering society. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant increases in participants being injection-free at 6 months and being drug-free after 3 years; however, there were no statistically significant effects in condom use (at 6 months) or being arrest-free (after 3 years). Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Power Source |
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Mental health, Treatment, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Juvenile detention, Juvenile justice, Juvenile (under 18) | This is a group-based, cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness training intervention targeted at male youth in high-security correctional facilities. The program is rated Promising. Results indicated a statistically significant reduction in the decline of attention skills for the treatment group, measured as accuracy and response variability on the Attention Network Test; however, there was no statistically significant effect on response time. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Milwaukee Safe Streets Prisoner Release Initiative (PRI) |
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Mental health, Prisons, Reentry, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs | This program combines enhanced employment opportunities and wraparound services for incarcerated persons before and after release from prison. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant reduction in likelihood of rearrests for program group participants, compared with the control group. There was also a lower rate of reimprisonment for program participants than nonparticipants; however, this difference was not statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Cognitive Skills Training (Georgia) |
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Parole, Mental health, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Community corrections, Inmate programs, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Employment initiatives | Implemented by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, this is a cognitive–behavioral program for male parolees that aims to build psychosocial skills in areas such as self-control, interpersonal problem-solving, and critical reasoning. The program is rated No Effects. The authors found no statistically significant effect of program participation on recidivism and employment measures. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Mentally Ill Offender Community Transition Program (Washington) |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Reentry, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention | The program is targeted at individuals whose mental illnesses are seen as instrumental in their offenses, and who are likely to qualify for and benefit from publicly supported treatment in the community. The overall goal is to reduce recidivism . The program is rated Effective. Participants in the program were less likely to be convicted of any new offense and convicted of felony offenses, compared with the matched comparison group. The difference was statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Returning Home - Ohio (RHO) Pilot Program |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Community corrections, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Reentry, Crime prevention | This program linked incarcerated persons who had disabilities and were at risk for homelessness to supportive housing upon their release from prison. The goal was to reduce recidivism, homelessness, and multiple systems use. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to statistically significantly reduce the probability of rearrest (but not re-incarceration) and length of time from release to rearrest; however, treatment group participants were rearrested more frequently. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Earned Early Release (Washington State) |
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Parole, Probation, Sentencing guidelines, Courts, Prisons, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Reentry, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime | Under a 2003 Washington State law, incarcerated individuals who had committed certain nonviolent offenses were able to acquire earlier release time of up to 50 percent of their maximum sentence. The program is rated Promising. Individuals who were released early under the law had a statistically significant lower rate of felony convictions, compared with individuals who were not released early; however, there was no statistically significant difference on violent convictions. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Use (Incarcerated Women) |
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Alcohol, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Community corrections, Reentry, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This program was designed to provide an alcohol intervention to incarcerated women with hazardous drinking habits who were being released from prison. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and comparison groups on the number of days abstinent from alcohol consumption at the 6-month follow up. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Minnesota Prison Work Release Program |
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Reentry, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs | This program was designed to help individuals make a successful transition from prison to the community through provision of stable housing and support to obtain employment. The program is rated Promising. Program participants had a statistically significant decrease in rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration rates, and an improvement in employment and number of hours worked. However, participants also had a statistically significant higher likelihood of revocations for technical violations. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Philadelphia (Penn.) Intensive Aftercare Probation Program |
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Probation, Reentry, Violent offenders, Case Management, Corrections, Community corrections, Juvenile detention, Juvenile justice, Juvenile detention | This program was an intensive alternative reintegration program for high-risk male juveniles who were being released to probation from a juvenile corrections facility. The program is rated Promising. Results showed that while there were no differences between the treatment and comparison groups on the percent who had been re-arrested during the 9-month follow up, the treatment group had a statistically significantly lower number of re-arrests than the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Avon Park Youth Academy and STREET Smart Aftercare Program |
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Training, Mental health, Diversion, Intake/assessment, Jobs and workforce development, Young juvenile offenders, Access to education, Reentry, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Juvenile detention, Juvenile justice, Inmate assistance programs, Employment initiatives | This program was located at a secure-custody residential facility that provided educational and vocational training to moderate-risk male youth. The program is rated No Effects. Participants showed a statistically significant greater likelihood of obtaining a degree, compared with nonparticipants. However, there were no statistically significant differences in any arrest for any offense overall and felony arrest specifically, employment, time employed, or higher education enrollment. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Challenge Incarceration Program (CIP) |
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Prisons, Corrections, Reentry, Inmate programs | This boot camp intervention in Minnesota combines a traditional military institutional program for 6 months with two 6-month phases of intensive, supervised release aftercare. The program is rated Promising. Program participants had statistically significant lower rates of re-arrest, felony reconviction, and return to prison for a new offense than the comparison group, but no statistically significant difference in the rate of return to prison for any offense. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Enhanced Thinking Skills (England) |
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Corrections, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Reentry, Inmate programs | This is a prison-based, cognitive–behavioral skills enhancement program in England. The program is rated Effective. Program participants showed statistically significant reductions in reconviction rates and frequency of reoffending, compared with nonparticipants. However, there was no statistically significant difference between groups in severe offense reconviction rates. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (Cook County, Ill.) |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Reentry, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Legal substances, Drugs | This intervention linked women who committed nonviolent offenses to community-based, substance use treatment after release from jail. It was designed to reduce recidivism and alcohol and drug use, and to promote long-term recovery. This program is rated No Effects. The treatment group had a statistically significant greater likelihood of participating in substance use treatment; however, there were no significant effects for recidivism, alcohol and drug use, or number of days spent in jail. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Alameda County (Calif.) Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment Program |
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Mental health, Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Crime prevention | This is a post-custody, community-based intervention for individuals with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. The program is rated No Effects. While the program statistically significantly reduced the number of reconvictions and incarcerations, it did not impact the number of arrests, days in jail, felony convictions, or percent of reconvictions. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Wichita (Kansas) Work Release Program |
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Reentry, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism | This is a reentry program designed to facilitate selected individuals’ transition from incarceration to community living by providing work opportunities outside of correctional facilities and less structured housing alternatives. The program is rated Promising. Program completers had statistically significantly lower recidivism rates, compared with comparison group members who did not participate in the program, at the 3-year follow-up period. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Ready, Willing, and Able (RWA) |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Prisons, Reentry, Sentencing, Courts, Employment initiatives | This is a transitional employment program that gives those who are newly released from prison the opportunity to work and find housing. RWA seeks to provide clients with work and foundational skills so that they can find a job, secure housing, and become financially independent. The program is rated No Effects. After 3 years, RWA showed a statistically significant positive impact on jail sentences, but there was no statistically significant impact on arrests, convictions, and prison sentences. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: New Jersey Adult Diagnostic Treatment Center (ADTC) |
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Sex offenders, Mental health, Sex offender management, Corrections, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Reentry, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Rape and sexual assault | The program provides cognitive–behavioral treatment and relapse prevention to people who commit repetitive, compulsive sex offenses. Cognitive–behavioral treatments focus on reconstructing person’s cognitive distortions; relapse prevention focuses on pattern recognition and breaking the cycle of recommitting sex crimes. The program is rated Promising. The intervention participants showed a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with the general prison-population. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Allegheny County (Pa.) Jail-Based Reentry Specialist Program |
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Corrections, Jails, Correctional facilities, Crime prevention, Recidivism | This was a two-phase reentry program with an overall goal of reducing recidivism and improving incarcerated persons’ transition into the community. Phase 1 provided incarcerated persons with in-jail programming and services to prepare them for release. Phase 2 provided them with up to 12 months of supportive services in the community. The program was rated Effective. Program participants had a 10 percent chance of rearrest, compared with a 34 percent chance for the comparison group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Minnesota Comprehensive Offender Reentry Plan (MCORP) |
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Prisons, Inmate programs, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Crime prevention, Recidivism | This was a case management program implemented in seven different correctional institutions across Minnesota. The program connected caseworkers in prisons with supervision agents in the communities to which participants return upon release from prison. The program is rated Promising. It statistically significantly reduced recidivism as measured by rearrest, reconviction, technical violation revocation, and reincarceration for any reason, but had no impact on new offense reincarceration. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program (Seattle, Washington) |
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Drug possession, Community policing, Jails, Correctional facilities, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Courts, Arrests | This is a pre-booking, community-based diversion program designed to divert those suspected of low-level drug and prostitution offenses away from jail and prosecution and into case management and other supportive services. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group had a statistically significant lower likelihood of having been rearrested, compared with the control group. However, there was no statistically significant impact on non-warrant rearrests. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Moving On (Minnesota) |
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Reentry, Corrections, Inmate programs | This is a curriculum-based, gender-responsive intervention created to address the different cognitive–behavioral needs of incarcerated women. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the program had a statistically significant lower likelihood to be rearrested and reconvicted, compared with the control group participants; however, the program did not have a significant impact on reincarcerations for a new offense and technical violation revocations. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Bronx (NY) Mental Health Court |
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Mental health courts, Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Problem-solving courts, Diversion, Rape and sexual assault | This is a problem-solving court program that seeks to divert mentally ill adults who committed misdemeanor and felony offenses out of the justice system and into treatment to address their mental health issues and reduce their risk of recidivism. The program is rated No Effects. There was no statistically significant effect on rearrests or reconvictions for treatment group participants, compared with similar individuals with a mental disorder in jail, at the 30-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Prison Industry Enhancement Certificate Program (PIECP) |
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Prisons, Correctional facilities, Inmate programs, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Inmate assistance programs, Employment initiatives | The program engages persons incarcerated in state prison in private sector jobs (which pay minimum wage or higher), in an effort to increase post-release employment and reduce recidivism. The program is rated Promising. Compared with those who worked in traditional prison industries and participated in other activities such as education and drug treatment, treatment group participants showed a statistically significant increase in post-release employment and a decrease in recidivism rates. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Community-based Residential Programs (Ohio) |
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Parole, Mental health, Reentry, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Inmate assistance programs, Employment initiatives | This program is designed to reduce recidivism by placing released those convicted of offenses in halfway houses and community-based correctional facilities in Ohio, to provide a range of programming related to chemical dependency, education, employment, and family relationships. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group had a statistically significant lower number of new arrests and reincarcerations, compared with those in the comparison group, at the 2-year follow up. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Washington State's Residential Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative |
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Corrections, Reentry, Inmate programs, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Courts, Drugs, Substance abuse | This program is an alternative to incarceration for felons with substance abuse problems. In lieu of confinement, they must successfully complete a residential, chemical-dependency treatment program in the community. The program is rated Promising. Residential DOSA was shown to statistically significantly reduce overall recidivism rates compared with prison-based DOSA. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: In-Prison Visitation (Florida) |
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Crime prevention | Visitation in prison allows incarcerated persons to connect to the outside world by developing social bonds with family members and friends. The overall goal of in-prison visitation is to reduce recidivism and assist in helping incarcerated persons adjust to transitioning back into their community. The program is rated Promising. The recidivism rate was statistically significantly lower for incarcerated persons who received visitation compared with those who did not receive visitation. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Mental Health Courts (Multisite) |
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Mental health courts, Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections | This program consists of post-booking jail diversion mental health courts, which seek to keep justice-involved individuals with serious mental illnesses out of the court system and place them into community-based treatment without jeopardizing public safety. This program is rated Promising. Mental health courts in the four studied cities were shown to have statistically significant reductions in participants’ rates of arrests and incarceration days at the 18-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Private Prison Confinement (Minnesota) |
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Recidivism, Crime prevention | In Minnesota, bed shortages created an increase in the prison population in the first few years following 2000, resulting in eligible male inmates being transferred to a private prison facility to serve their time. The program was rated No Effects. Confinement in the private prison resulted in statistically significant increases in the risk of rearrest and reconviction. There was no statistically significant impact on reincarceration for a new offense or revocation for a technical violation. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Minnesota's Affordable Homes Program |
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Prisons, Inmate programs, Reentry, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs | This is a prison work crew program designed to increase the availability of affordable low-income housing while training inmates in construction-industry-specific occupational skills. The program is rated No Effects. The program had a statistically significant effect on participants’ likelihood of gaining employment in the construction field. However, there were no statistically significant effects on rearrests, reconvictions, and reincarceration. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Adolescent Diversion Program (New York State) |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Courts, Diversion, Sentencing | This is a diversion program for 16- and 17-year-old defendants in the New York state adult criminal justice system. The program is rated Promising. Similar rates of recidivism were found for participants and comparison group members, which suggests that diverting older adolescents does not increase the risk of recidivism and risk to the public. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: InnerChange Freedom Initiative (Minnesota) |
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Prisons, Inmate programs, Corrections, Employment initiatives | This is a voluntary, faith-based prisoner reentry program that attempts to prepare inmates for reintegration into the community, employment, family, and other significant relationships through programming. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration rates for the treatment group, compared with the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant impact on revocations for a technical violation. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Changing Course |
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Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Drugs, Substance abuse, Drug treatment | This is an interactive journal designed to help incarcerated persons who have been screened or identified as having a potential substance use disorder to help inmates make the connection between their substance use and criminal activity. The program is rated Promising. The recidivism rate of inmates who participated in the program’s interactive journal intervention was statistically significantly lower compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center |
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Mental health, Intake/assessment, Violent offenders, Youth development, Treatment, Recidivism, Corrections, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention, Juvenile justice | This is a residential program that provides mental health treatment to violent juveniles. The program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group demonstrated a statistically significant lower likelihood of violent (but not general) recidivism and had a longer offense-free period in the community prior to committing felony, violent, or violent felony (but not misdemeanor) offenses, compared with control group participants. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Project Greenlight |
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Mental health, Prisons, Corrections, Inmate programs, Community corrections, Corrections, Reentry | This is an institution-based transitional services demonstration program, designed to be a short, intensive intervention, which could provide a greater number of individuals with reentry services at a lower cost. The program is rated No Effects. Program participants showed a statistically significant higher rate of parole revocation and rearrests for new offenses, compared with comparison group participants. However, there were no significant differences in felony rearrest rates between groups. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Modified Therapeutic Community for Individuals With Mental Illness and Chemical Abuse (MICA) Disorders Who Commit Offenses |
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Mental health, Corrections, Reentry, Correctional facilities, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | This program is an adaptation of the therapeutic community models used with individuals who have co-occurring drug abuse problems and mental health disorders. It offers a more flexible, more personalized, and less intense approach to achieve greater reductions in substance use and recidivism. This program is rated Promising. Participants in the treatment group showed statistically significant reductions in illegal drug use, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Amity In-Prison Therapeutic Community |
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Reentry, Corrections, Inmate programs, Drugs, Drug treatment | This program provides intensive treatment in a dedicated housing unit to male incarcerated persons with substance abuse problems during the last 9 to 12 months of their prison terms. The program is rated Promising. Participants had statistically significant lower reincarceration rates at the 24-month and 5-year follow-up periods, compared with the control group. There were no significant differences between the groups in reincarceration rates at the 36-month follow up or in drug use at the 5-year follow up. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Boston (Massachusetts) Reentry Initiative (BRI) |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Jails, Correctional facilities, Community corrections, Crime prevention | This interagency public safety initiative aims to help incarcerated violent adults who have been convicted of a crime transition back to their neighborhoods following release from jail through various services. The program is rated Promising. The study found that after 3 years statistically significantly fewer program participants had been arrested for any crime and violent crime compared to the control group. The program was also associated with reductions in the subsequent overall time to arre Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Forever Free |
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Parole, Corrections, Prisons, Recidivism, Reentry, Crime prevention, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs, Drugs | This prison-based substance abuse treatment program for women near the end of their incarceration period is designed to reduce substance use and recidivism following release. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group reported statistically significantly fewer arrests and reconvictions and less drug use at follow up compared with the comparison group. However, there was no statistically significant effect on reincarceration and employment. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Delaware KEY/Crest Substance Abuse Programs |
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Corrections, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Inmate programs, Reentry, Drugs, Rape and sexual assault | This program uses a drug treatment continuum of prison-based therapeutic community and residential work release for drug-involved convicted persons. The program is rated Promising. Results showed statistically significant increases in remaining drug-free after 3 years and increases in condom use after 6 months; however, there were no statistically significant effects in being injection-free (after 6 months) or arrest-free (after 3 years). Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Equipping Youth to Help One Another (EQUIP) |
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Reentry, Youth development, Treatment, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Correctional facilities, Juvenile justice, Juvenile detention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile detention | This is a multicomponent treatment program administered in juvenile correctional facilities for youth with conduct disorders. This program is rated Promising. Program youth showed statistically significant improvements in social skills and had statistically significant fewer instances of self-reported and staff-reported institutional misconduct, compared with control group youth. However, there were no significant differences between groups on measures of moral judgment. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Ottawa County (Mich.) Sobriety Court Program |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Traffic laws, Law enforcement, Traffic law enforcement, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a court program in western Michigan designed to divert people convicted of driving under the influence (DUI) from jail, eliminate substance use, and reduce recidivism. The program is rated Promising. At the 2-year follow up, program participants were less likely to be rearrested and had longer time to first-rearrest, compared with control group participants. These differences were statistically significant. However, there were no significant differences between groups for alcohol or drug Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Auglaize County (Ohio) Transition (ACT) Program |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Jails, Correctional facilities, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a jail reentry program that works to reduce inmates’ recidivism once they reenter the community, in part by linking them to various resources. The program is rated Promising. Approximately 12 percent of program participants were rearrested during the 12-month follow-up period, compared with 82 percent of control group participants, a statistically significant difference. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Cognitive–Behavioral Interventions for Justice-Involved Juveniles and Young Adults Adjudicated for an Offense in Europe |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Reentry, Treatment, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile detention, Juvenile (under 18), Adjudication | This practice involves the use of cognitive–behavioral interventions to reduce the reoffending of juveniles and young adults adjudicated for an offense in Europe. Cognitive–behavioral interventions include various similar therapies, including thinking skills programs, social skills and problem-solving approaches, and reinforcement of behavioral change. This practice is rated Promising for the reduction of reoffending. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Rehabilitation Programs for Adults Convicted of a Crime |
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Parole, Probation, Mental health, Drug courts, Mental health courts, Jails, Corrections, Community corrections, Inmate assistance programs, Prisons, Reentry, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Problem-solving courts, Prosecution, Law enforcement, Drug treatment | This practice includes programs that are designed to reduce recidivism among adults by improving their behaviors, skills, mental health, social functioning, and access to education and employment. They may become participants in rehabilitation programs during multiple points in their involvement with the criminal justice system. This practice is rated Promising for reducing recidivism among adults who have been convicted of an offense. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Day Reporting Centers |
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Drug testing, Parole, Probation, Community corrections, Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This practice uses day reporting centers, which are nonresidential multiservice centers, to facilitate parolees’ reintegration back into the community through a combination of services and supervision. This practice is rated No Effects for reducing criminal recidivism among adults who have been convicted of an offense. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Methadone Maintenance Therapy |
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Heroin, Inmate assistance programs, Prisons, Inmate programs, Correctional facilities, Drugs, Substance abuse, Illegal substances, Opioids | This practice involves a medication-assisted treatment for individuals with opioid dependence. Methadone is a long-acting synthetic opioid analgesic that works as a pharmacologic intervention to prevent or reverse withdrawal symptoms, reduce opiate cravings, and bring about a biochemical balance in the body in order to reduce the illicit use of opioids. The practice is rated Effective for reducing use of heroin/opioids but rated No Effects for reducing criminal activity and mortality. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Prison Visitation for Incarcerated Adults |
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Corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention | Prison visitation allows incarcerated individuals the opportunity to meet with family and friends to sustain connections and social supports. One of the main goals of prison visitation is to reduce recidivism of individuals once they are released from incarceration. The practice is rated Promising for reducing recidivism of individuals who receive visits while incarcerated. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Adult Reentry Programs |
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Mental health, Reentry courts, Jails, Prisons, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Inmate programs, Probation, Community corrections, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Problem-solving courts, Law enforcement | This practice involves correctional programs that focus on the transition of individuals from prison into the community. Reentry programs involve treatment or services that have been initiated while the individual is in custody and a follow-up component after the individual is released. The practice is rated Promising for reducing recidivism. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Programs to Reduce Dating and Sexual Violence for Youth and Young Adults |
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Dating violence, School safety, Campus Crime, School climate, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Rape and sexual assault | This practice involves a range of prevention and intervention programs that are designed to address problems associated with dating violence for youth and young adults. The practice is rated Effective for reducing the perpetration of dating violence and improving dating violence knowledge and attitudes. The practice is rated No Effects for reducing dating and sexual violence victimization, reducing sexual violence perpetration, and for improving bystander behaviors. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Gender-Specific Programming for Incarcerated Females |
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Mental health, Corrections, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | The practice involves in-prison substance abuse and other types of treatment programs for incarcerated women with the goal of reducing recidivism. The practice is rated Promising. Women who participated in the treatment were significantly less likely to recidivate after release than women who did not participate in the treatment. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Incarceration-based Narcotics Maintenance Treatment |
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Heroin, Jails, Correctional facilities, Corrections, Prisons, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs, Opioids | This practice attempts to reduce harms associated with drug dependency by prescribing synthetic opioid medication to opioid-addicted individuals who are in prison or jail. The practice is rated No Effects for reducing recidivism. A meta-analysis found that incarcerated persons in narcotics maintenance treatment have significantly greater odds of recidivating than comparison subjects. However, the practice is rated Promising for decreasing the odds of drug relapse post-release. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Incarceration-based Therapeutic Communities for Adults |
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Corrections, Correctional facilities, Prisons, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Drugs | This practice uses a comprehensive, residential drug treatment program model for treating substance-abusing and addicted inmates to foster changes in attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors related to substance use. The practice is rated Promising in reducing recidivism rates after release for participants in therapeutic communities. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Motivational Interviewing for Substance Abuse |
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Alcohol-Related Offenses, Cocaine, Marijuana, Alcohol, Juvenile (under 18) | A client-centered, semidirective psychological treatment approach that concentrates on improving and strengthening individuals’ motivations to change. The practice is rated Effective. Individuals in the treatment groups significantly reduced their use of substances compared to those in the no-treatment control groups. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Correctional Work Industries |
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Corrections, Correctional facilities, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention | Correctional work industries are designed to provide work experiences for incarcerated persons while they are incarcerated. The practice is rated Promising for reducing crime and delinquency. Those who participated in correctional work industry programs were significantly less likely to recidivate than those who did not participate. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Corrections-Based Adult Basic/Secondary Education |
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Parole, Corrections, Community corrections, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs | Adult basic education classes for incarcerated adults provide basic skills instruction in arithmetic, reading, and writing. The practice is rated Promising in reducing recidivism (including reoffending, rearrest, reconviction, reincarceration, and technical parole violation); and Promising in employment and socioeconomic status - job placement outcomes. Those who participated in the education programs were significantly more likely to find employment. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Corrections-Based Vocational Training Programs |
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Prisons, Corrections, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Employment initiatives, Inmate assistance programs | Vocational training or career technical education programs in prison are designed to teach incarcerated persons about general employment skills or skills needed for specific jobs and industries. The practice is rated Promising in reducing recidivism, and in having a significant impact on participants obtaining employment following release from prison. Their odds were 28 percent higher than those who had not participated in training. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Postsecondary Correctional Education (PSCE) |
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Corrections, Inmate programs, Recidivism, Crime prevention | Postsecondary correctional education is academic or vocational coursework taken beyond a high school diploma or equivalent that allows inmates to earn credit while they are incarcerated. The practice is rated Promising in reducing recidivism (including reoffending, rearrest, reconviction, reincarceration, and technical parole violation) for inmates who participated compared to nonparticipants. Date Posted: |
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Practice Profile: Juvenile Boot Camps |
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Diversion, Access to education, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile detention, Juvenile (under 18) | Juvenile boots camps, also called shock or intensive incarceration programs, are short-term residential programs that resemble military basic training facilities and target adjudicated juveniles. The practice is rated No Effects. The likelihood of boot camp participants recidivating was roughly equal to the likelihood of comparison participants recidivating. Date Posted: |