Primary Care-Based Complex Care Management (San Francisco, Calif.) Rated “No Effects”
The program is designed to provide a lower cost alternative to emergency medical treatment for chronically ill individuals who have been recently released from prison. Treatment group participants had significantly lower rates of emergency room use, compared with the control group. However, there was no significant impact on recidivism and primary care utilization.
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Ready, Willing, and Able Rated “No Effects”
Ready, Willing, and Able (RWA) 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 obtain a job, secure housing, and become financially independent. There was no significant impact on arrests, convictions, and prison sentences after 3 years; however, it did have a significant impact on jail sentences after 3 years.
Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration Program Rated “No Effects”
This program is designed to improve behavioral and performance job skills, provide services and support, and help find job placements for participants leaving prison. The results showed that participation in transitional job services led to increased employment early in the follow-up period, but as participants went from transitional jobs to regular jobs, the employment increase faded. There was no significant impact on recidivism over the 2-year follow up.
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EMPLOY (Minnesota) Program Rated “Promising”
EMPLOY is a prisoner-reentry employment program designed to reduce recidivism by helping participants find and retain employment after release from prison. It provides participants with employment assistance during the last several months of confinement through the first year following their release from prison. Results suggested that offenders who participated in the program reported significantly lower rates of recidivism and higher rates of employment post-release.
Learn more about the EMPLOY Program.
New Jersey Adult Diagnostic Treatment Center (ADTC) Program Rated “Promising”
The program provides both cognitive-behavioral treatment and relapse prevention to repetitive, compulsive sex offenders. Cognitive-behavioral treatments focus on reconstructing offender’s cognitive distortions; relapse prevention focuses on pattern recognition and breaking the cycle of recommitting sex crimes. The general prison-population comparison group was 2.4 times more likely to recidivate than the intervention participants.
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