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ABSTRACT
Do reentry programs including those that are boundary-spanning (operating before and after release from incarceration) help lengthen the time parolees go without being revoked and sent back to prison? In this retrospective study, we examine the impact of three related programs on participants by calculating the length of time they survived without revocation. We considered how long those who participated in only a prerelease program, only a postrelease program, or in both programs (boundary-spanning) sequentially survived when compared to a nonparticipating control group. Those in the boundary-spanning program experienced less parole revocation. However, we found that parolees in the postrelease-only program survived the longest. Demographic and parole experience-related variables examined to contextualize these findings and their practical implications are discussed.
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Acknowledgement
The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for, and the editors of Corrections: Policy, Practice & Research for their comments and suggestions on previous drafts of this article.
Notes
1. Originally named Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime, TASC is a case management program in various communities that assists released offenders providing drug use assessment, screening and treatment.
2. We are omitting the name of the state and the metropolitan area where the study was conducted at the request of the agency involved.
3. We use the median when comparing lifetimes on parole of the various groups so that their values are not affected by outliers (or extreme scores) particularly given the small sample sizes of each group.
4. Additional confirmatory results, that is, specific analyses that examine the number of months on parole separately for all participants, the three treatment groups, and the control group are available upon request.