WORK AND EDUCATION RELEASE IN CONNECTICUT - AN ANALYSIS OF POST RELEASE EFFECTS ON INMATE PARTICIPANTS

• NCJ Number: 19605
• Author(s): G F STOWELL
• Date Published: 1974
• Length: 20 pages
• Corporate Author: Connecticut Dept of Correction; University of Connecticut
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Publication Type: Program/Project Evaluation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THIS PROGRAM WAS EVALUATED IN TERMS OF THE PARTICIPANTS' RATE OF RETURN TO THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM, NUMBER OF DAYS FREE FROM ARREST, NUMBER OF SUBSEQUENT OFFENSES, AND THE SERIOUSNESS OF SUBSEQUENT OFFENSES.

Abstract

THE POST RELEASE EXPERIENCE OF A RANDON SAMPLE OF RELEASE PARTICIPANTS WAS COMPARED TO THE POST RELEASE EXPERIENCE OF A RANDOM SAMPLE OF NON-PARTICIPANTS. IT WAS FOUND THAT THERE WAS A SLIGHT, NUT NON-SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE FOR WORK RELEASE IN TERMS OF REDUCING THE RATE OF RETURN TO THE CONNECTICUT CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM, REDUCING THE NUMBER OF SUBSEQUENT OFFENSES, AND REDUCING THE SERIOUSNESS OF SUBSEQUENT OFFENSES. WORK RELEASE WAS DIFFERENTIALLY EFFECTIVE IN TERMS OF INCREASING THE NUMBER OF DAYS FREE FROM ARREST. THAT IS, THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE FOR WORK RELEASE ONLY FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO PRIOR TO INCARCERATION WERE UNEMPLOYED, CLAIMED NO SKILL OR TRADE, AND WERE INCARCERATED FOR PERIODS OF SIX MONTHS OR LESS. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT CERTAIN CHANGES IN SELECTION POLICY OF THE WORK RELEASE PROGRAM MIGHT IMPROVE THE REHABILITATIVE EFFICACY OF THE PROGRAM. A BIBLIOGRAPHY IS INCLUDED. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)