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The benefits of HOPE in Hawaii

By Douglas A. Berman

I received this e-mail from the folks at Pew yesterday, which provides a very positive report on a reentry program in our 50th state: Established in 2004, Hawaii?s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program identifies probationers at high risk of violating the conditions of their community supervision, and deters them from using drugs and committing crimes with frequent and random drug tests backed up by swift, certain and short jail stays. The Impact of Hawaii?s HOPE Program on Drug Use, Crime and Recidivism, produced by the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States and the National Institute of Justice, summarizes new research conducted by Pepperdine University and the University of California, Los Angeles...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 16, 2010 (boomark / email).