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Recidivism Performance Measures for Private Halfway Houses in Pennsylvania
Loaded on Sept. 19, 2014
by Alex Friedmann
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2014, page 50
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Statistics/Trends,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Release and Reentry.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
Recidivism Performance Measures for Private Halfway Houses in Pennsylvania
by Alex Friedmann
In 2013, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) officials announced they would provide financial incentives to privately-operated community corrections facilities – halfway houses – that reduce the recidivism rates of offenders released from those facilities.
The unique initiative followed ...
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