Reentry Program Combines Therapeutic Community, Rehabilitation, Work Release and Parole: Long Term Outcomes by Jerry Jennings in Peer Reviewed Journal of Forensic & Genetic Sciences (PRJFGS) in Lupine Publishers
This 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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