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The Effects of Prison-Based Programming

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This chapter will investigate the benefits of prison-based rehabilitation, focusing on both educational and vocational programming. The effects of such programming on rehabilitative and reintegrative outcomes will be analyzed. Since female offenders, most who are responsible for minor children, will not be able to regain custodial rights until they have adequate housing, this chapter will highlight the importance of providing female offenders with employment skills that can actually help them to obtain stable jobs, and subsequently stable housing, once released.

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    Polly Klass was abducted from her bedroom by Richard Allen Davis, a repeat offender. This case fueled the passage of California’s Three Strikes Legislation. Stranger abduction of a child is rare but this case was highlighted and used to pass the three strikes legislation, which has not proven to reduce crime rates, but has managed to bankrupt the State of California with the overcrowding of its jails/prisons.

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Collica, K. (2013). The Effects of Prison-Based Programming. In: Female Prisoners, AIDS, and Peer Programs. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5110-5_4

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