This report presents an evaluation of the Wyoming Adult Offender Reentry Program, which was funded under the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) and designed to reduce the high rates of recidivism among the most serious and violent offenders in corrections systems.
Results from the evaluation of the Wyoming Adult Offender Reentry Program found there were two main risk factors and two main protective factors related to future recidivism. Significant risk factors were past parole revocation and past gang membership. Significant protective factors were participation in the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) and increase age at release. Factors not significantly related to recidivism were gender, history of sex crimes or violent crimes, highest custody level in the past 3 years, attendance at the minimum security facilities, and the city where the inmate was released on parole. As to whether there was a significant net effect of SVORI programming on offender recidivism, long-term recidivism rates were lower for the SVORI group. This evaluation report focused on the Wyoming Adult Offender Reentry Program which was funded through a Federal reentry program, SVORI, designed to reduce the extremely high rates of recidivism among the most serious and violent offenders in corrections systems. This report is based on data collected by the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center over the past 5 years. The Wyoming SVORI program began in April of 2003 and ran through December of 2007. The evaluation tracked SVORI participants and a similar non-participant, serious, and violent comparative group that were incarcerated at the Wyoming State Penitentiary or the Wyoming Women's Center. Tables, figures, references, and appendixes A-F