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Unit 2 Assignment April Bashford COR 204 Community-Based Corrections November 4, 2023

Community-based correctional methods such as halfway houses and work release are both good programs. They both offer different ideas and concentrate on offenders not getting arrested for a new felony or misdemeanor. While they both offer alternatives to imprisonment, they offer punishment or treatments. Half-way houses require these offenders to serve their sentence in a residential location that allow monitoring with GPS devices. The work release program offers the offender the ability to earn a day of sentence credit for a day of work they do. They may have jobs like picking up trash or helping in repairing building important to the community. It is typically a job that improves or gives something back to the community. If I had to choose one that is more likely to result in decreased rates of offending, I would have to say the work release is the better option. I think this because often times the half-way houses are understaffed and the staff they do have are not greatly supervised and many of the offenders that go through this type of program often leave and continue to live the criminal way they have previously been use to. The half-way house is simply not prepared for these type of offenders and so the work release program would be a better option and gives a better rate. It is shown that 10 percent of those in the work release program tend to not re-offend. It has even shown in many studies that those released into society with a parole officer monitoring them did better than those in the half-way house. The other issue with many of these programs is the cost and society just does not have the funding to keep them in operation. For an offender to be successful in a half-way house program, they need to s[end lots of time in them, but many of them only give it a few months and they give up and leave, therefore, they do not get the best effect out of them.

According to the article, Participation in a work release program decreased the risk of arrest for a new felony or misdemeanor crime by about 10 percent one year following release from prison, by about 8 percent two years following release, and by about 9 percent three years following release. (Bales, W. D., Clark, C., Scaggs, S., Ensley, D., Coltharp, P., Singer, A., & Blomberg, T.G. (2015). This continues to show that work release programs are more efficient and more effective for the offenders. The cost is also most likely cheaper because they just have to provide the offenders with an officer to monitor them and the work they have to perform are jobs in society already and they have employees they consistently pay for these jobs. This also provides the offender with the job skills and they can succeed later in finding a job in society as they have already understood the positives in having a job. They also are earning a small income to help themselves in life. This prepares them for society quicker and easier and they are less likely to re-offend and reintegrate themselves in society. Of course the main goal for any community-based corrections program is to prevent crime and not just about locking people up, but giving them the best chance possible to stay out of prison when they get out and to rehabilitate into society. The Bureau of Prisons also feels that offenders that are at low-risk should not be sent to prison and this will lead to fewer needing community-based programs after incarceration. Also, they feel that more programs need to be offered earlier, while the offender is still incarcerated and offer better treatments early on. They also think that maybe offering more programs or interventions for after being released from a half-way house will lower the rate of

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