Pennsylvania’s Motivational Boot Camp Program: What Have We Learned Over the Last Seventeen Years?
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
May. 02, 2012
ANNOTATION: This bulletin provides a great review of the longer report by the same name (which can be found at the second link). It shows the positive impact the Motivational Boot Camp has on reducing costs to the state and recidivism. Sections of this bulletin are: highlights and recommendations; legislative history; legislative reports; what the Motivational Boot Camp is; who goes to boot camp—demographic and criminal justice factors; attitudinal and behavioral changes among boot camp graduates; boot camps effect on recidivism; and summary and conclusions. The average cost savings per boot camp graduate is $38,434 with a recidivism rate of 58% (compared to offenders coming from prisons at 64%).
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