The Program For Offenders: Comprehensive Evaluation and Cost/Benefit Analysis of a Community Corrections Facility
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 16, 2012
ANNOTATION: People looking for strategies to address overcrowding in correctional facilities or ways to improve their recidivism rates should look over this study. Results from an evaluation of The Program For Offenders (TPFO), a nonprofit residential community corrections facility located in Pittsburgh, are presented. The outcome assessment looked at the usefulness of TPFO’s major programs and services, recidivism, employment, successful reentry into the community, and cost savings. The process evaluation assessed staffs’ perspectives on their performance, work climate, staff performance as determined by supervisors, and supervisors’ performance as rated by staff. Findings show that TPFO is “creating an environment of encouragement and accountability that has provided numerous offenders the opportunity to understand how to rebuild their lives and to become self-empowered and reintegrated members of the community. As a result, TPFO is providing the local region with preferable options as an alternative to prison or jail, and succeeding in achieving the mission of public safety and inmate reintegration” (p. 1). This is accomplished with an average annual savings to Allegheny County of over $3.6 million.
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