Impact of the Opportunity to Succeed (OPTS) Aftercare Program for Substance-Abusing Felons: Final Report

Rossman, Shelli B.; Sridharan, Sanjeev; Gouvis, Caterina; Buck, Janeen; Morley, Elaine

doi:10.1037/e515002006-001

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“…In urban areas such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, an estimated 30 to 50 percent of all parolees are homeless (California Department of Corrections 1997). A 1999 Urban Institute three-site study of 400 returning prisoners with histories of drug abuse found that 32 percent had been homeless for a month or more at least once in their lifetimes, and 18 percent reported that they were homeless for at least a month in the year after they were released from prison (Rossman et al 1999).…”

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Where will I sleep tomorrow? Housing, homelessness, and the returning prisoner

Roman

Travis

2006

Housing Policy Debate

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This year, over 630,000 prisoners will be released from state and federal prisons across the country-more than four times as many as were released in 1980. In this article, we examine the scope of the prisoner reentry issue-what is known about the intersection of housing, homelessness, and reentry and about the barriers returning prisoners face in securing safe and affordable housing.Although the housing challenges are formidable, progress is being made on numerous fronts. We seek to frame the dynamics of the reentry housing discussion by highlighting the promising strategies that are emerging. These strategies, taken to scale, could help create a very different national policy on prisoner reentry. Ultimately, effective reentry strategies have the potential not only to reduce re-arrest and increase public safety, but also to reduce homelessness.

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Section: Reentry and Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where will I sleep tomorrow? Housing, homelessness, and the returning prisoner

Roman

Travis

2006

Housing Policy Debate

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“…The other four studies (producing five publications) were conducted in Sweden [40], China [41], Spain [42,43], and Australia [44]. Six trials did not specify the sample gender [15,40,45,46,47,48], six trials contained female only samples [34,35,44,49,50,51,52], nine trials (and 13 publications) contained only male adult offenders [53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65]; and 22 trials (and 25 publications) contained male and female adult offenders [13,16,41,44,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90]. Eight comparisons considered young and/or juvenile offenders [16,49,56,57,66,…”

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“…In a further eight studies a good description of the random sequence was provided resulting in a rating of low risk of bias [48,57,64,67,70,78,85,92]. The final five studies were rated at high risk of bias presented random sequence methods which caused concern [40,45,52,65,68].…”

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“…Two studies were rated at low risk of bias [65,83] and the remaining 12 studies were rated at high risk of bias [16,48,50,60,69,73,75,76,78,84,92]. …”

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“…Five of the 10 papers reported costs associated with the intervention, eight papers reported information relating to healthcare costs, all 10 reported on costs associated with criminality, four reported on productivity costs, and two reported on other public goods. Only 1 of the 10 papers reported on all four areas [48]. …”

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One consequence of the tremendous growth in the number of persons under supervision of the criminal justice system, whether incarcerated, on parole, or on probation, is the effect of this criminal history on finding and keeping a job. Ex-offenders, especially those recently released from prison, face substantial barriers to many types of legal employment; nonetheless, stable employment is one of the best predictors of post-release success. Thus, policy-makers concerned about high recidivism rates face an obvious need to improve the employment prospects of ex-offenders. Over the last 25 years, many programs that were designed to increase employment (and, by so doing, reduce recidivism) among ex-offenders have been implemented and evaluated. conducted a quantitative synthesis and meta-analysis of 33 evaluations of educational, vocational, and work programs for persons in correctional facilities. To date, however, the evaluation literature on employment programs for those with a criminal record who are not in custody has not been systematically reviewed. This paper presents the results of a quantitative meta-analysis of eight random assignment studies of such programs, using the Campbell Collaboration methodology. The results indicate that this group of community employment programs for ex-offenders did not reduce recidivism; however, the experimental design research on this question is small and does not include some of the promising community employment programs that have emerged in the last decade.

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Impact of the Opportunity to Succeed (OPTS) Aftercare Program for Substance-Abusing Felons: Final Report

Cited by 14 publications

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Where will I sleep tomorrow? Housing, homelessness, and the returning prisoner

Where will I sleep tomorrow? Housing, homelessness, and the returning prisoner

Are Non-Pharmacological Interventions Effective in Reducing Drug Use and Criminality? A Systematic and Meta-Analytical Review with an Economic Appraisal of These Interventions

Ex-offender employment programs and recidivism: A meta-analysis

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