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Bridge to Opportunities: Connecting Probationers to High-Wage Jobs

Probation agencies face significant challenges to helping their clients find jobs, and earn living wages. One program focused on the construction industry aimed to improve the earning potential of individuals on probation in Sacramento County, California.

May 25, 2018
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An Alternative Future for the Corrections Sector

Experts agree that the main role of the U.S. corrections sector should be to help improve offenders' behavior. Better staff training, the elimination of operations that generate revenue, and a cultural shift to prioritize rehabilitation over punishment could help.

Oct 26, 2017
Report

Report

Public Safety Realignment in Twelve California Counties

California legislation grants flexibility to counties in implementing public safety realignment. This report determines whether counties continued and expanded existing practices or took the opportunity to change correctional business as usual.

Jun 29, 2015
Report

Reducing Gun Violence

An initiative that successfully reduced gun violence in Boston was adapted for a section of East Los Angeles with prevalent gang activity. Though not implemented as planned, the intervention helped reduce violent and gang crime in the targeted districts, both during and immediately after implementation.

Dec 22, 2010
Research Brief

Research Brief

Assessing Parolees' Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California

California parolees' health care, mental health care, and drug- and alcohol-treatment needs, as well as where parolees go when they return to counties, place significant demands on counties' safety-net resources and on their ability meet those needs.

Jun 17, 2009
News Release

News Release

California Parolees Have a High Need for Health Services, but Accessing Services Is a Challenge

Inmates released from California prisons have a high need for drug treatment, health care and mental health services, but they face barriers to accessing such aid because many return to communities where health care services are severely strained.

Jun 11, 2009
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California Parolees Have a High Need for Health Services, but Accessing Services Is a Challenge

Inmates released from California prisons have a high need for drug treatment, health care and mental health services, but they face barriers to accessing such aid because many return to communities where health care services are severely strained.

May 29, 2009
Journal Article

Journal Article

Does Parolee Drug Testing Influence Employment and Education Outcomes? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Noncompliance

Despite the ubiquity of drug testing in criminal justice settings, there is little experimental evidence suggesting that testing reduces drug use or engenders pro-social behavior. This paper estimates the effect of parolee drug testing on labor and education outcomes with data from a randomized experiment involving 1,958 young parolees.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Future of DIRECT Surveillance: Drug and Alcohol Use Information from REmote and Continuous Testing

The focus of this essay is on alcohol use among probationers and parolees, but is also explores use of electronic monitoring technologies in other settings, and for other drugs.

Jan 1, 2008
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Criminal Careers of Habitual Felons

Analysis of interviews with 49 prison inmates - armed robbers serving at least their second prison term. The interviews probed patterns of criminality; criminal sophistication; treatment by criminal justice agencies; and drug and alcohol involvement.

Jan 1, 1977
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Criminal Careers of Habitual Felons: A Summary Report

Summarizes findings from a project designed to examine the criminal careers of habitual felons. In-depth personal interviews with 49 prison inmates are the primary source of data.

Jan 1, 1977

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